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January 15, 2025 In News

Sentient Media: 81% of Meatpacking Workers at High Injury Risk, USDA Warns

“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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January 14, 2025 In Blog

Aquaculture’s Big Catch: Corporate Control

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...

December 31, 2024 In News

The Cedar Rapids Gazette: Environmental group poised to sue Postville kosher meat plant

The 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....

December 30, 2024 In Press Release

Agri Star’s Pollution of Iowa Waterways Has Violated Clean Water Act For Years, Group Alleges

Driftless 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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December 19, 2024 In Blog

Trump’s Deregulatory Legacy: Harming Workers, Consumers, and Animals

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...

December 18, 2024 In News

Investigate Midwest: USDA’s investigation into Tyson Foods has collected thousands of documents. Would Donald Trump end it?

“We would expect to see an investigation like this closed or just die,” said Muraskin, citing Trump’s history of deregulation and business-friendly policies....

FarmSTAND staff, board member, and special guest pose at FarmSTAND's first anniversary event

December 16, 2024 In Blog

Signs a Better Food System is Possible: FarmSTAND’s Accomplishments in 2024

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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December 13, 2024 In Blog

How Big Ag Thrives on Trump’s Immigration Threats

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...

December 9, 2024 In Press Release

LSP Applauds Appeals Court Ruling on Winona County CAFO

“The Court of Appeals decision today is another victory for democracy, and for clean water for the people of Winona County,” said Holly Bainbridge, FarmSTAND staff attorney and counsel for LSP. “It’s essential that all Big Ag attempts to use the civil justice system to...

December 4, 2024 In News

Michigan Public Radio: Stateside: Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024

[T]his week the Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether undocumented immigrants are able to receive lost wages when they are injured at work. David Muraskin, a managing director for Litigation at FarmSTAND, who is representing the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center...

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Sentient Media: 81% of Meatpacking Workers at High Injury Risk, USDA Warns

Aquaculture’s Big Catch: Corporate Control

The Cedar Rapids Gazette: Environmental group poised to sue Postville kosher meat plant

Agri Star’s Pollution of Iowa Waterways Has Violated Clean Water Act For Years, Group Alleges

Trump’s Deregulatory Legacy: Harming Workers, Consumers, and Animals

Investigate Midwest: USDA’s investigation into Tyson Foods has collected thousands of documents. Would Donald Trump end it?

Signs a Better Food System is Possible: FarmSTAND’s Accomplishments in 2024

How Big Ag Thrives on Trump’s Immigration Threats

LSP Applauds Appeals Court Ruling on Winona County CAFO

Michigan Public Radio: Stateside: Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024

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