Help Stop the Expansion of Factory Farming

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The animal agriculture industry attempts to paint itself as a collection of
small family farms, but nothing could be further from the truth. Large — often
multinational — corporations have overtaken animal agriculture in the United
States. There is nothing small about this cruel and destructive industry, yet
the Small Business Administration (SBA) is proposing a rule that will allow it
to give small business loans to even larger factory farms.

Please take a few minutes to submit a comment telling the SBA that you oppose
propping up factory farms with funds intended to help small businesses.
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TAKE ACTION
[[link removed]]Unfortunately, the SBA has a history of enabling the animal agriculture
industry’s exploitation of funds. In 2018, the SBA Office of the Inspector
General released a report concluding that the SBA guaranteed approximately $1.8
billion in loans to factory farms that did not actually qualify as small
businesses. The Animal Legal Defense Fund has urged the SBA not to fund the
corporate animal agriculture industry and is currently suing over the federal
government’s decision to exempt federal funding for factory farms from
environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Factory farms intensively confine thousands, and even millions, of animals until
they grow large enough to be trucked to slaughter. Not only do they hurt
animals, factory farms threaten public health by spreading antibiotic resistant
bacteria and zoonotic diseases and pollute the air and water. These
environmental effects are especially harmful in marginalized communities, where
factory farms are disproportionately sited.

The SBA should not be using public money to further entrench this industry at
the expense of animals, the environment, and rural communities. We need your
help in asking the SBA to reconsider its proposal to expand federal funding of
factory farms. Please submit a comment by December 1st in opposition to this reckless rule
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For the animals,


Cristina Stella
Managing Attorney



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