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 are contaminating the lettuce at your grocery store, too. ...
Read MoreLate yesterday, a group of farmworker advocates - and workers who have labored alongside H-2A agricultural workers - filed an amicus brief in a meritless legal challenge to the Biden Administration’s recently finalized rule protecting the rights of workers in temporary agricultural employment. The amici groups are...
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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 to give those rights away. In June 2024, Oklahoma passed a law shielding poultry giants like...
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Our food system should nourish kids and make sure they grow up to be physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy. Children need healthy food to grow. They also need sufficient sleep, access to education, and responsible adults around them to keep them safe from dangerous situations...
Read More"'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 the law, yet it has rebuffed plaintiffs' offer of settlement and insisted on filing additional...
Read More"Workers who raise health concerns with their supervisors are further protected by the Occupational Safety and Health Act’s anti-retaliation provisions, said Amal Bouhabib, senior staff attorney with the worker advocacy group FarmSTAND."...
Read More"The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center is represented by John C. Philo of the Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, and David S. Muraskin of FarmSTAND."...
Read More"The case was litigated by attorneys from the nonprofit Public Justice, which has since spun off its agriculture-related work into a group called FarmStand. It was backed by animal rights groups as well as free-speech and media organizations."...
Read MoreLate Friday, the state of North Carolina agreed to pay a public interest coalition that successfully struck down North Carolina’s “Ag-Gag” law $884,987 in attorneys’ fees, as a result of the state’s efforts to defend the law for years. The plaintiff groups successfully sued to...
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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 ventilation, and lack of sunlight all mean more and better chances for disease to spread....
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