Consumer Rights
Food Dive: Tyson to stop selling ‘climate-smart’ beef as part of lawsuit settlement
"Environmental groups are increasingly leaning on courts to drive action as regulation stalls, according to Kelsey Eberly, senior staff attorney at FarmSTAND, which represented EWG in its suit against Tyson."
Sustainability Online: Tyson Foods to halt ‘net zero’ claims following lawsuit settlement
"Elsewhere, Kelsey Eberly, senior staff attorney at FarmSTAND, added that the resolution marks a 'crucial turning point in the fight against climate greenwashing.'"
The New York Times: ‘Climate-Friendly’ Beef Now Has to Prove It
“'It’s a warning to other large companies that you cannot just claim that you’re magically going to erase your greenhouse gas emissions,' Eberly said. 'You have to come with the…
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Tyson Foods enters settlement agreement over climate-friendly beef claims
"With climate-forward policies weathering existential attacks, legal actions like this are increasingly critical to raise consumer awareness about the outsized impact conglomerates like Tyson have on our climate."
The New Lede: Tyson agrees to settlement over climate-smart beef claims
"Along with EWG, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Earthjustice, Edelson PC, and FarmSTAND participated in representing EWG in the legal challenge."
Tyson Foods Agrees to Stop Making ‘Net-zero’ and ‘Climate-smart Beef’ Claims
Lawsuit alleged Tyson Foods falsely claimed it will be net-zero by 2050 and marketed its industrial beef products as “climate-smart” The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has settled its greenwashing lawsuit…
Why we can’t “offset” our way to a just and humane food system
At FarmSTAND, we’re optimists. That doesn’t mean we have Pollyannaish hope. It means we lean into the hard work of making tangible change in our food system day by day,…
Sentient Media: More Data From Farmers Could Help Scientists Better Track Avian Flu, But Privacy Concerns Stand in the Way
“It is incredibly difficult to get any kind of specific information about industrial farm operations, especially geospatial data because of an overlapping system of exemptions from the public records laws,”…
MAHA’s Report Proves It Can’t and Won’t Fix Our Food System
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…