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May 30, 2019 In Cases

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. Corporate agribusiness has, however, been pushing efforts to expand the scope of these laws to...

May 30, 2019 In Resource Materials

Amicus brief in support of rehearing (Indiana Right to Farm)

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Blackwood v. N&M Dairy

N&M Dairy was a multi-thousand cow dairy that the dumped millions of gallons of waste produced annually in surrounding open fields and earthen lagoons. The government and N&M Dairy consultants themselves warned N&M that its actions were killing crops and poisoning groundwater. Toxic nitrates seeped...

May 28, 2019 In Resource Materials

Tactics for Attorneys with Clients Suffering Harms from Industrial Animal Agriculture

Use this document to help screen and evaluate cases against potential harms from new and expanding factory farms, slaughterhouses, and processing plants....

Read More Case: Defending the Rights of Seasonal Agricultural Workers Fact Sheets

May 24, 2019 In News

All Things Considered: Plaintiffs In CAFO, Right To Farm Lawsuit Want A Rehearing

Two Hendricks County couples are petitioning the Indiana Court of Appeals to rehear their case against a neighboring farm with 8,000 hogs. They say the smell from the confined animal feeding operation or CAFO is making it difficult for them to eat or sleep....

May 10, 2019 In Cases

Iowa Public Trust Doctrine (Iowa CCI & FWW v. State of Iowa)

FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice), Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, and Food & Water Watch filed a lawsuit against the State of Iowa claiming that the state has violated its obligation to protect the Raccoon River for the use and benefit of...

May 10, 2019 In Resource Materials

Help with Organizing to Stop a New or Expanding CAFO

Find out how the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project may be able to help your community protect itself from the damages caused by industrial livestock operations....

Read More Case: North Carolina Ag-Gag Fact Sheets

May 6, 2019 In Resource Materials

Combatting Factory Farms in Your Community

This guide is an introduction to steps you can take to combat the harms of factory farms in your community as industrial-scale animal agriculture expands across the United States, resulting in more communities who suffer from existing factory farms or face industry proposals to site...

May 15, 2015 In Cases

Yakima Valley Dairy Cases

In October 2012, the Center for Food Safety and the Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) warned four major Yakima Valley (Wash.) factory farms that they would take them to federal court unless the farms stopped contaminating local drinking water supplies with runoff...

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