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Fighting Anti-Haitian Discrimination at JBS (Pierre v. JBS USA)
JBS, the largest meat company in the world, exploited over 1,000 Haitian workers recruited under false pretenses for its Greeley, Colorado plant to boost corporate profits.
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Equal Rights for Pennsylvania Ag Workers (UFCW 1776 v. Pennsylvania)
Agricultural workers deserve the same workplace protections as all other workers. But in Pennsylvania, the state specifically excludes them from the protections of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act. This means that workers classed as agricultural workers who wish to organize with other workers, join a union, or protest abusive working conditions could be fired for…
Stopping Big Salmon Greenwashing (Harris v. Trapananda Seafarms)
Big Aquaculture is following the same model of environmental degradation, worker exploitation, and consumer deception as the land-based corporate animal agriculture system. The complaint in this action alleges that behind the cutesy family of bears and claims of being “Sustainably Farm-Raised” and “responsibly sourced” on the packaging, the Mama Bear salmon brand hides the truth…
Demanding Environmental Review of Mega-Dairy Expansion (Riverview West River Dairy Expansion)
Mega-dairies, which confine tens of thousands of cows, create devastating environmental and economic impacts on the communities where they take root. Despite the known impacts on clean water and greenhouse gas emissions, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency decided to forgo an Environmental Impact Statement for Riverview’s proposed West River Dairy expansion near Morris, Minn. If…
Fighting Politicized Restrictions on Food System Grantees (Washington Farmland Trust v. USDA)
In 2026, The Trump Administration’s USDA began imposing unlawful, unprecedented department-wide terms and conditions on every new USDA grant. 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…
Haciendo valer el derecho de personas trabajadoras agrícolas de recibir visitantes (Colorado Legal Services v. Southern Colorado Farms)
Click here to read this case page in English. La histórica Ley de Derechos de Trabajadores Agrícolas de Colorado en el año 2021 aseguró el derecho de personas trabajadoras agrícolas de recibir visitantes en vivienda proveída por su empleador. Esto incluye visitantes como abogados de los Servicios Legales de Colorado (CLS por sus siglas en…
No Corporate Impunity for Roundup (Monsanto v. Durnell)
Farmers and farmworkers are standing up to say that Monsanto and its Big Ag industry friends do not speak for them. On behalf of 15 organizations dedicated to the wellbeing of farmers and farmworkers, FarmSTAND filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court case Monsanto v. Durnell. The brief argues that a decision protecting…
Fighting Court Secrecy on Alleged Big Ag Anticompetitive Behavior (USA v. Agri Stats)
Throughout our food system, you’ll find Big Ag corporations playing dirty, manipulating the system to boost their profits while producers and consumers pay the cost. In 2023, the United States, joined by several state attorneys general, sued the data services company Agri Stats for allegedly violating the Sherman Act and enabling Big Ag processors and…
Monitoring FERC to stop Factory Farm Gas
Big Ag loves to tout a fantasy where factory farm gas, which is methane gas produced from waste like manure, is good for the environment. The reality is that factory farm gas rewards factory farms for producing more climate-heating gas and entrenches a system of ever larger, more concentrated animal agriculture. Factory farm gas-related projects…
Protecting Oregon’s Waters from Industrial Aquaculture (CFS v. Pacific Bio Products)
Industrial aquaculture poses many of the same threats as industrial land-based agriculture does to clean water and healthy ecosystems. For more than three years, Pacific Bio Products, owned by seafood giant Pacific Seafood, has illegally polluted the Columbia River by discharging pollutants like chlorine and has failed to properly monitor and report their discharges. Pacific…
Fighting Anti-Haitian Discrimination at JBS (Pierre v. JBS USA)
JBS, the largest meat company in the world, exploited over 1,000 Haitian workers recruited under false pretenses for its Greeley, Colorado plant to boost corporate profits. Starting in late 2023, JBS began recruiting Haitians via TikTok, promising employment without English language requirements and free housing while they got set up in Greeley. But when these…