Today is World Environment Day, and I’d like to use this day to focus on a key part of our environment: how our food is grown.
Industrial-scale agriculture has a stranglehold over how your food is grown and raised. You’ve probably seen photos or documentaries about animals on factory farms crammed together in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions, often unable to feel the grass under their feet or engage in their natural behaviors.
These conditions on factory farms are not only cruel, but lead to dangerous levels of emissions and contaminated water supplies for surrounding communities. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
At Food & Water Watch, we’re fighting to end factory farms and transition to a healthy, sustainable, and equitable food system — one that builds rural communities, values workers, raises animals humanely, and respects consumers. This is possible, but it will take building pressure from the State House to the White House to ban factory farms and transition existing ones to more sustainable operations.
For generations, small and mid-sized independent farms reliably fed people and cared for the environment and animals. But Big Ag’s factory farms upended this relationship. Today, legal and policy failures have allowed a handful of giant corporations to control where and how your food is grown.
Now, we must dismantle the entrenched political power that corporate agriculture has amassed. That’s where you come in, John!
To change the fundamental structure of how our food is grown and raised, we’re organizing, taking legal action, and rallying across the country — fighting fiercely to protect our environment, communities, and animals from the dangers and cruelties of factory farms.
Food & Water Watch and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Action, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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