The intent to sue notice was co-authored by Driftless Water Defenders, a non-profit Iowa-based group working to protect Iowa waterways from agricultural polluters, as well as Public Justice and FarmSTAND, both non-profit legal advocacy groups....
Read MoreEvery day, my organization FarmSTAND sees the extent to which industrial animal agriculture is a system built on a foundation of harm. A handful of ag megacorporations have so much power that they control most of what ends up on grocery store shelves, leaving people...
Read More“The Clean Water Act does provide citizens like Driftless Water Defenders an avenue for addressing that government under-enforcement and protecting the right to clean waterways,” said attorney Holly Bainbridge of FarmSTAND, a group supporting the lawsuit. ...
Read More“Everyone has a right to use and enjoy their property” under common law, said David Muraskin, managing director for litigation at FarmSTAND. “What the Right to Farm laws have done is basically say, ‘If you move next to a farm, no, you don’t — that...
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Stopping Agricultural Exceptionalism’s Harm to the Environment and Workers Keeps Getting More Important ...
Read More“Industrial animal agriculture operates on a model of systemic exploitation to increase their profit margins at the expense of the well-being of animals, workers and rural communities. Today’s USDA studies on swine and poultry processing workers clearly show the human cost: life-altering injuries, painful work...
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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...
Read MoreThe group also is being represented by Public Justice and FarmSTAND, both of Washington, D.C., which have litigated environmental concerns on behalf of residents in other states....
Read MoreDriftless Water Defenders (DWD), an Iowa non-profit membership corporation focused on water issues in Iowa, has issued to Agri Star Meat & Poultry, LLC, and Agri Star General, Inc., (Agri Star) a Notice of Violations and Intent to Sue Under the Clean Water Act (CWA)....
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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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