About
We believe we can transform our food system into one that supports healthy, empowered communities, creates sustainable livelihoods for people who produce our food, and is transparent and accountable to people, not profit.
Our Purpose
FarmSTAND is the only legal advocacy organization in the country dedicated solely to taking on all industrial animal agriculture.
We support a vision of animal agriculture that is regenerative, humane, and owned by independent farmers. We dismantle the laws, regulations, and practices that allow for the consolidation of corporate power at great cost to workers, consumers, and independent producers of food. We believe we cannot make change alone, so we collaborate with allies across the country and the good food movement. In these partnerships, we combine litigation with organizing and storytelling to create meaningful change.
From protecting our land, water, and animals, to standing up for the rights of workers and food producers, dismantling industrial animal agriculture moves us all closer to the world we want to see.
Who We Are
How our society produces, distributes, and consumes food impacts everyone. Right now, that system consistently produces harm to maximize profit. A handful of corporations have consolidated control over all aspects of the food system, including shaping laws that let them exploit animals and the environment, as well as consumers and workers — often concentrating the worst harms on the most vulnerable communities.
Our food system should nourish people and protect animals and the environment — not just exist to further enrich wealthy corporations.
That’s where we come in. FarmSTAND drives precedent-setting litigation rooted in our relationships with movement partners.
Directly impacted communities — including farmers and ranchers, food chain workers, and rural residents — are leading the fight for food justice. Aligning the right resources and expertise alongside their efforts is essential to seeding transformational change.
We know we can’t do it alone. Join our movement for a food system for us, by us by signing up for updates or getting in touch.