Farmers & Rural Communities
Beef Checkoff (R-CALF v. Vilsack and R-CALF v. USDA)
For an in-depth explanation on how checkoff programs hurt independent farmers and how FarmSTAND uses litigation to fight for a fairer system, read our Deep Dive. R-CALF challenges the checkoff’s…
Standing Up to the Chicken Industry’s Abuse of Contract Farmers
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…
Jessica Culpepper: Mobilizing Lawyers in the Fight for a Better Food System
Jessica Culpepper, director of the Food Project, talks about her vision for a better, healthier food system that results in healthy, empowered communities and sustainable livelihoods for farmers — and…
NWI Times: Court ruling prioritizes corporations over families
NWI Times: Court ruling prioritizes corporations over families
In a recent decision, the Indiana Court prioritized corporate profits, unchecked pollution and industrial agriculture facilities ahead of the interests of Indiana families.
Huffington Post: Indiana Farmers Union Joins Fight Against Noxious 8,000-Hog Agribusiness Operation
Indiana’s Right to Farm Act essentially strips independent farmers and rural residents of any sort of redress against polluting concentrated animal feeding operations.
HuffPost: Indiana Farmers Union Joins Fight Against Noxious 8,000-Hog Agribusiness Operation
The Indiana Farmers Union, with the support of the farmers union as well as Family Farm Action, Public Justice and Food & Water Watch, has filed a friend of the court…
Indiana Right to Farm
Like many other states, Indiana has a “Right-to-Farm” statute, meant to codify the coming to the nuisance doctrine—so city-dwellers cannot move to rural lands and demand farms change their operations.…
Morris v. Tyson
FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice) represented a mass action of poultry growers in Western Kentucky who raise poultry for Tyson, the nation’s largest poultry company. Tyson acts…