Fighting for a fair food system—in courtrooms and communities.

COVID-19 laid bare corporations’ disregard for their employees as companies like Smithfield denied protections to workers while meatpacking plants became hotspots for COVID outbreaks. We helped bring the first lawsuit to protect meatpacking workers from coronavirus.

Protecting Workers in COVID-19

Fighting for a fair food
system—in courtrooms
and communities.

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Exposing Abuses of
Corporate Power

Deep Dive: Hormel

Exposing Abuses of
Corporate Power

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Many of us want to shop in ways that align with our values. Big food corporations know this and put a lot of resource into misleading shoppers. See what information we unearthed in our lawsuit against Hormel Foods for falsely advertising their “Natural Choice” product line.

Supporting Farmers & Rural Communities

Rural communities need fair markets to thrive. But Big Ag uses their power to control markets, pollute family farms, and steal land and labor from rural communities, forcing local farmers and ranchers out of business.

Fair Markets For Farmers

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Rural Communities

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Protect Workers

Exposing Abuses Of Corporate Power

Supporting Farmers & Rural Communities

We’re Fighting for a Fair Food System

FarmSTAND is the only legal group in the country dedicated solely to taking on Big Ag. We partner with directly impacted groups to fight in courtrooms and communities for better working conditions, humane treatment of animals, clean air and water, and food that’s safe to eat.

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We Need More Attorneys and Law Students to Join the Movement

Across the nation, industrial agriculture facilities are moving into places where their pollution and exploitative work practices are hurting communities. With our help, you can be part of a network that brings legal support to rural residents, farmers, and workers impacted by the factory farm system.

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Ag-Gag Litigation

A just, healthy, and thriving food system requires transparency. Public Justice engages in litigation to strike down the Ag-Gag laws that penalize whistleblowers who expose the truth about the factory farm system.

North Carolina Ag-Gag

FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice) is lead counsel on behalf of a coalition of public interest groups in a constitutional challenge to North Carolina’s “Anti-Sunshine” law—a statute that, like Ag-Gag laws, allows employers and property owners to sue undercover investigators who wish…

Deep Dive: Hormel

Hormel wants you to make the “Natural Choice.” Documents we’ve made public reveal how that is anything but.

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We’re Fighting for a Fair Food System

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Deep Dive: Hormel

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