Consumer Rights
Why We Don’t Wait on Corporate Ag Promises
“What happened to antibiotic-free chicken?” So asked a recent article examining the unfortunate but predictable arc of a years-long campaign to get excessive antibiotics out of chicken feed. For decades,…
How Industrial Animal Ag is Making Lettuce Dangerous
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…
Big Ag Needs Governments to Keep Bailing It Out
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…
Law360: Iowa Seeks To Mute ‘Ag-Gag’ Law First Amendment Challenge
“‘The ag-gag law is an attack on traditional democratic processes,’ Espey said in a statement Monday. ‘In its brief, the state does not even attempt to justify this use of…
Factory Farms Are A Breeding Ground For Disease. We Deserve A Healthier Food System.
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…
Voting With Your Pitchfork: Beyond the Consumer-Worker Binary
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…
Proposition 12
FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice) submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of California’s Proposition 12, which limits the sale of pork products in…
Indy Week: Federal Court Rules NC’s Ag-Gag Law is Unconstitutional
In a split decision the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that North Carolina’s “ag-gag law” is unconstitutional and infringes on free speech.
Fourth Circuit Enjoins North Carolina Ag-Gag Law, Affirming Constitutionality of Undercover Investigations and Whistleblowing
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit handed an important win to plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s Ag-Gag law, ruling that undercover investigations and whistleblowing…