When Cory travelled across the Midwest meeting with farmers last year, a key pattern became clear: corporate-owned factory farms were driving small farmers out of business.

Big Ag has been getting bigger and bigger, buying out small farms, raising prices for consumers at the supermarket, and contributing to climate change. Not only that, but factory farms are breeding grounds for animal abuse and disease — experts warn that infectious diseases and even full-blown pandemics can be born in these massive, cramped warehouses of livestock.

Public health professional Michael Greger has put it simply, "If you actually want to create global pandemics, then build factory farms." This is all the more alarming while living in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic in which we're dealing with the far-reaching, life-or-death impacts of a public health crisis, all the while continuing to consume meat from these operations.

Factory farms are bad for our farmers, consumers, animals, environment, and public health: that's why Cory introduced a bill to stop them.

The Farm System Reform Act would ban construction of new concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO's), put the liability and costs of agricultural pollution, accidents, and disasters on the corporate farms instead of small farmers, and provide funding to those currently running CAFO's to transition to other forms of more sustainable agriculture.

If you agree it's time we end Big Ag's harmful factory farms once and for all, add your name to become a citizen co-sponsor of Cory's bill and encourage the Senate to take it up for a vote.

Thanks for standing with Cory on this important issue.

– Team Booker