A just, healthy, and thriving food system requires transparency. Widely shared information about how our food is raised helps us hold corporations and government accountable. For example, investigations into animal treatment on factory farms have led to major policy reforms for animal handling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, since the 1990s, Big Ag has campaigned to pass \u201cAg-Gag\u201d laws in states across the country \u2013 laws that penalize whistleblowers for exposing the worker, environmental, and animal abuse that happens behind the closed doors of factory farms and slaughterhouses. There\u2019s a reason that the agriculture industry expends immense time and resources to pass Ag-Gag laws: to escape accountability. If the public and consumers knew the truth behind meat in the grocery store aisles, they would not stand for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice) engages in litigation to strike down these unconstitutional and pernicious Ag-Gag laws that stand in the way of a just food system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Click on the drop-down menu below to learn the basics behind each Ag-Gag law and what we\u2019re doing to strike it down.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n