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Legal challenge seeks to end nearly nine-decade injustice harming organized labor in the state The United Food and Commercial Workers, […]

Australis has stark record of environmental destruction in Chile, according to complaint   Despite trading on a cute, pastoral image, Mama […]

Five nonprofit organizations working to build a more just food system filed suit late yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to challenge unlawful terms and conditions that USDA is imposing on new grants. These terms and conditions substantially restrict grantees’ speech and programming in support of diversity and equity, bar using grant funding on whatever the administration says is “promoting gender ideology”, and limit grantees’ work in support of immigrants.

Today, Food & Water Watch and the Land Stewardship Project sued the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) over the state’s June 23 decision to forgo an Environmental Impact Statement for Riverview’s proposed West River Dairy expansion near Morris, Minn.

Groups representing investigative, legal advocacy, and photojournalism efforts to fight factory farming have submitted formal comments to the Federal Aviation Administration opposing a proposed rule that could let large-scale factory farms and slaughterhouses obtain Unmanned Aircraft Flight Restrictions (UAFRs), effectively closing off the airspace above their facilities to drones.

A new report from fair food system advocacy organization FarmSTAND tells the comprehensive inside story behind deceptive claims Tyson Foods made about the environmental sustainability of its products. Tyson claimed in its marketing that it was committed to becoming a net zero business, and that its Brazen Beef line was “climate-friendly”, marketing that has ceased thanks to a landmark 2025 settlement.

“But Muraskin argues these deals have all added up to a convenient facade to fund a pro-industrial farming lobby group […]

“We immediately pointed this out during the comment period,” said Bainbridge. “Rather than taking a long, hard look at environmental […]

“Food & Water Watch and FarmSTAND, which are supporting the legal challenge, say a more comprehensive review is necessary before the project moves forward. The organizations have also raised concerns about water contamination risks associated with large livestock operations and manure management practices.”

“Animal Outlook submitted comments to the FAA with FarmSTAND and We Animals. FarmSTAND says it’s a legal advocacy group ‘dedicated to dismantling the corporate-controlled industrial animal agriculture system.’”

“‘They can agree to unclear and unlawful terms and attempt to alter their activities — taking on substantial risk of […]

Most people want to eat food that is good for them and the planet. As awareness of the climate crisis grows, eaters have become more concerned with making sustainable food choices. But many consumers don’t fully grasp how damaging industrial meat production in particular is for the climate. Climate-conscious consumers want to buy foods that are better for the planet. They are even willing to pay more for foods that match their values. But actually knowing which foods are better is no easy task. Many eaters rely on labels and information on food packaging, like claims that a product creates fewer greenhouse gas emissions, to judge if a food is climate-friendly.

In 2025, USDA abandoned farmers by recklessly terminating millions of dollars in grants, all to fall in line with the Trump administration’s crusade against DEI, environmental justice, and climate action. We suspected that the “process” for finding grants the administration found worthy of termination was hardly more than a simple search through grant documents for words it associated with diversity, equity, inclusion, or climate change. Now we can prove it.

Farmers and ranchers have beef with the checkoff, the system responsible for slogans like “Beef. It’s what’s for dinner,” “The Incredible, Edible Egg,” and “Got Milk?” Food checkoff programs penalize independent producers of food by funneling money to the lobbying and trade organizations that boost the largest corporate producers, according to research featured in this edition of FarmSTAND’s Deep Dive series. In the course of our litigation to reform the checkoff system on behalf of independent ranchers, we commissioned groundbreaking research that shows it’s possible to have a checkoff that’s fair for all farmers.

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

By Nathaly Lozado Arreaga2026 Summer Intern (Reducetarian Fellow) A fair food system should ensure all workers can labor safely, and […]

A fair food system is one in which workers receive a livable wage and where they feel safe to defend their rights at work. But the United States’ food system is built on a long history of oppression and exploitation. Due to agricultural exceptionalism, farmworkers aren’t protected by several laws that many people would expect in the workplace, including laws related to organizing and child labor. Now, the government is partnering with Big Ag to further dismantle worker power and maximize Big Ag’s profits at the expense of workers. This is all part of Big Ag’s playbook for the food system workforce: 

Farmworkers, like everyone else, deserve to work safely, with fair pay, without fear, and with dignity. But the reality is the industrial food system often deprives farmworkers of their legal and human rights. Isolation and power imbalance make it hard for workers to advocate for better treatment. Every day, workers’ rights are violated in the dominant food system, which relies on exploiting workers for maximum profit. Much of this abuse happens far out of most of our sight: in remote fields and agricultural labor camps. Those who profit from exploitation prefer to keep it this way.

A fair food system produces food that is nourishing and safe to eat. That food emerges from soil that is fertile and rich, rather than depleted by cancer-causing pesticides and herbicides. In a fair food system, the farmworkers that harvest our food are treated with dignity and fairly paid. And those farmworkers do not face life-threatening dangers as they work to put food on the table for their families and for ours.

If you take Big Ag execs at their word, they’ve found the miracle solution to climate change. By converting the poop from cows into “biogas” or “renewable natural gas,” their massive factory farm facilities are creating a new, sustainable source of energy out of waste that would otherwise contribute to climate change — or so the story goes. Sound too good to be true? It is. Big Ag and Big Oil like to call it “biogas” or even “renewable natural gas” because these names deceive people into thinking factory farm gas is natural and sustainable. But we call it what it really is — factory farm gas.

In late January and early February 2026, two federal courts on opposite sides of the country halted the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians. For the roughly 350,000 Haitians who rely on TPS to lawfully live and work in the United States, the rulings offer a fragile reprieve. The administration may win on appeal, even though it does not have the law on its side. Another group is likely breathing easier too, though for different reasons: Big Ag. Haitian TPS holders, like many immigrants, are essential to American food production. They work on slaughter lines, in poultry plants, and in food processing warehouses. These jobs are brutal, injury-prone, and essential. The poultry and meatpacking industries in particular are highly dependent on Haitian labor. In some states, Haitians make up as much as 15 to 30 percent of the meatpacking workforce.