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February 24, 2025 In Press Release

Driftless Water Defenders Files Federal Clean Water Lawsuit Against Agri Star for Polluting Iowa’s Yellow River and Hecker Creek

“People have the right to enjoy their local waterways, in the Driftless Region and everywhere,” said Holly Bainbridge, a staff attorney for FarmSTAND, and one of the attorneys representing DWD. “After 60 days of notice, it’s time to enforce the Clean Water Act through the...

February 24, 2025 In News

CBS 2 Iowa: Iowa meatpacking plant sued over years of alleged water pollution

"People have the right to enjoy their local waterways, in the Driftless Region and everywhere," said FarmSTAND attorney Holly Bainbridge in the press release. "After 60 days of notice, it’s time to enforce the Clean Water Act through the courts and make Agri Star stop...

February 4, 2025 In News

Teen Vogue: How Trump’s Admin Will Make Bird Flu Worse

Every 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...

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 6, 2024 In Cases

Stopping Big Ag Exploitation of J-1 Visa Holders (Alvarado v. Livingston)

Represented by FarmSTAND, Legal Aid of Nebraska, and Radford Scott LLP, these three Guatemalan men are suing Livingston Enterprises and Worldwide Farmers Exchange, the company that deceptively recruited them. The lawsuit targets a practice that has allowed employers like Livingston to exploit the J-1 visa...

October 11, 2024 In News

Portland Business Journal: NW Natural accused of greenwashing with customer ‘Smart Energy’ program

"'They ignore the excess methane that's created by the cows, there are not reliable in measuring claimed emissions benefits, they're notoriously leaky (and) equipment can malfunction,' Kelsey Eberly, a senior staff attorney at FarmSTAND, said."...

October 10, 2024 In News

Law360: Oregon Gas Customers Sue Over ‘Greenwashing’ Program

"This factory farm system that Northwest Natural has tricked its customers to buy into 'is entrenching both industrial agriculture and fossil fuel infrastructure,' Kelsey Eberly of FarmSTAND, an attorney representing the customers, said in the same press release."...

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September 27, 2024 In Blog

The Government Should Be Protecting People, Not Profits, from Bird Flu

We’ve known about the spread of bird flu to dairy cows, dairy workers, and poultry workers since early 2024, yet we still know very little about how many people and animals are getting sick and how we’ll be able to contain the spread of disease....

Thousands of young chickens inside a broiler house. A person in white protective coveralls walks through, facing away form the camera

August 23, 2024 In Blog

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, global public health leaders have been sounding the alarm on the overuse of antibiotics, including in...

A person's arm picks up a head of lettuce from a bin of lettuces in a grocery store

July 23, 2024 In Blog

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 are contaminating the lettuce at your grocery store, too. ...