Protect The Harvest is expanding its Board of Directors with the addition of long-time social and political activist Eric Whitley.

Whitley is President and principal of Downforcemarketing LLC, a manufacturing, marketing and consulting firm working with Fortune 500 companies around the world. He is also Director of Business Improvement at Leading2Lean.com, a manufacturing software provider that drives data focused businesses. A keen social services activist, Whitley was originally a Protect The Harvest volunteer and now joins the Board of Directors.

“We are very pleased to welcome Eric Whitley to our Board of Directors,” says Brian Klippenstein, Executive Director of Protect The Harvest. “His marketing expertise will help counter the marketing programs underway by anti-agriculture activists. Eric loves spending his time fighting for American families, especially the poor, by ensuring we continue to have the most plentiful, safest and affordable food supply ever known in history – all provided by American farmers and ranchers.”