It is no secret that industrial animal agriculture has devastating impacts on our air, water, and communities. A recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study confirms that factory farms are contaminating the lettuce at your grocery store, too. ...
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Our rights to enjoy clean water, fresh air and land free of life-threatening toxins should be non-negotiable. But when it comes to Big Ag, our elected officials are consistently willing to give those rights away. In June 2024, Oklahoma passed a law shielding poultry giants like...
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Our food system should nourish kids and make sure they grow up to be physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy. Children need healthy food to grow. They also need sufficient sleep, access to education, and responsible adults around them to keep them safe from dangerous situations...
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These industrial-scale operations come at an extreme cost to animal welfare and public health. Close confinement of animals can increase disease transmission. More contact with other animals, longer contact, poor ventilation, and lack of sunlight all mean more and better chances for disease to spread....
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Community organizers alongside public interest attorneys continue to stand against factory farms to defend our health and protect our waterways. Thanks to the tireless efforts of people on the ground and legal experts, we’re moving closer to a world with healthy waterways and healthy communities....
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As much as our current food system would have us believe that we are all primarily and merely consumers, other roles we play — as workers, advocates, and community members — offer much more effective avenues we can take to organize for a just food...
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Every person, regardless of where they come from, what they do for work, or where they live, should have access to fundamental services like healthcare, education, and legal help. As the managing attorney for Colorado Legal Services’ Migrant Farm Worker Division, Jenifer Rodriguez leads a team...
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The checkoff is a federal tax that forces ranchers to pay $1 per head every time cattle are sold, half of which is used in Montana and other states to fund the advertisements of the private, corporate run “state beef councils.” This is a form...
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The meat industry flexes its anti-competitive market power in abusive ways. Learn how one Tyson Foods contractor featured in Super Size Me 2 is working with Public Justice to stand up to an unfair system that exploits farmers for profit....
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