Do you look at the labels on all of the food that you buy? Not only the nutritional facts but also the ingredients? If you answered yes, then you’re probably a health conscious consumer, or maybe you have a specific food allergy. Well what about the stuff that’s in your food that isn’t on the ingredients label? No mater what kind of drugs they pump into the cow that your hamburger is coming from, it’s always just going to be labeled beef. How about that bottle of water that you’re drinking from right now? It’s just water, or is it? A salmon from Lake Ontario is still just salmon, even if it’s full of PCBs (at least you can’t buy those in the grocery store). There’s a lot of stuff in our food and water that we don’t know about, which is why Washington, DC based Food & Water Watch exists. They’re “a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food.”
The government is supposed to ensure the safety of our food and water. That’s a responsibility that we’ve entrusted to them. It gives us a little less freedom in what kind of food choices we can make, but it’s worth it to know that there are certain minimum standards for what we’re going to put in our body. Food & Water Watch asserts that the government isn’t doing the job that they should be. That’s why they take it upon themselves to “challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.” If you’re passionate about food quality and safety, an internship with Food & Water Watch might be worth considering.
There are a number of internship opportunities with Food & Water Watch that are available. They’re currently accepting applications on a rolling basis for their internships in Grassroots Organizing & Advocacy, Research, Communications, and Social Media. You can find the full details of these internships on Food & Water Watch’s Internships page. To apply for any of these Washington, DC based internships, you should send a resume, cover letter, and a short writing sample to internships@fwwatch.org. Food & Water Watch has also offered “Take Back the Tap” Organizing Fellowships in the past (they’re still posted on the site, but dated May 2008), so you may want to stay on the look out to see if they offer Fellowship opportunities this summer. Although it doesn’t say so on Food & Water Watch’s website, the Idealist postings for their internships say that they are unpaid.
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