Donald Trump and RFK Jr. claim their administration will “Make America Healthy Again,” but their most recent report shows that MAHA can’t deliver the changes to our food system we need for a healthier future....
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The biggest polluters increasingly use SLAPP and Anti-SLAPP to evade legal accountability...
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Devastated. Betrayed. Heartbroken. Like the rug was pulled out from under them — that’s how farmers describe the Trump Administration’s sudden dismantling of several Biden-era programs that had begun to revive small farming. Cuts to key USDA programs, mass firings of federal agents, and...
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In the American West, water scarcity is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, with severe droughts and dwindling water supplies impacting rural communities, urban centers, and the natural environment. One of the major contributors to this crisis is industrial animal agriculture, which consumes an astonishing amount...
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Eggs have been getting a lot of time in the spotlight lately. As egg prices continue to skyrocket in the early months of the second Trump administration, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins has pledged that her $1 billion dollar plan will “combat avian flu and reduce...
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Stopping Agricultural Exceptionalism’s Harm to the Environment and Workers Keeps Getting More Important ...
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Nothing better illustrates the grim transformation of U.S. aquaculture than Maine’s Cobscook Bay. In the 1970s, local families in the bay employed local workers at smaller-scale salmon farms of 3-4 net pens each, and feed manufacturers harvested fewer wild fish by using leftover cuttings from...
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During his first term as president, Donald Trump took major steps to deregulate our food system, thereby putting workers, consumers, animals, and the environment at even greater risk. One of the most harmful deregulatory actions Trump took in his first presidency was increasing slaughterhouse line...
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2024 was an amazing year for FarmSTAND and the movement for a fair food system. It was our first full year as the only legal organization in the country dedicated solely to taking on the corporate, industrial animal agriculture system. We hit the ground running....
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It’s estimated that undocumented workers make up anywhere from 30-50 percent of the meatpacking workforce. Foreign-born workers make up an even larger proportion of animal agriculture industries like dairy and pork processing, from 60 up to 90 percent in some states, many of them undocumented. Deporting...
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