They pollute the environment and our drinking water, devastate rural communities, and confine millions of animals in inhumane, cruel and unsanitary conditions.
In many parts of the country, factory farms are concentrated around communities of color and low-income areas where they significantly harm people living nearby. For decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state governments have failed to regulate the environmental impacts of huge, industrial-scale factory farms.
That’s why Food & Water Action is fighting for a just transition to more sustainable systems, like pasture-based livestock and food crops. And it's why we're championing the Farm System Reform Act, groundbreaking legislation that would end factory farms.Will you join us in fighting to end the dominance of these giant polluting industrial farms?
Corporations like Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and Smithfield have a stranglehold on our food system and undue influence over the elected officials who are supposed to be looking out for us. These corporations work to manipulate the debate over how our food is produced, how it's regulated, and how it impacts our health and communities. They work to deflect real change with confusing alternatives.
Our current corporate-dominated food system locks farmers into abusive contracts and high debt, freezes out farmers of color from federal loans and subsidies, and exploits workers in dangerous conditions in the nation’s produce fields and slaughterhouses. The tight grip these companies have over the industry means farmers have little choice about whom they sell to and how their animals are raised.
Small and medium-sized independent farms can feed us and be good stewards of the land — but not if mega-corporations are allowed to rig the system and force them out of existence. We need to take back our power and break Big Ag’s stranglehold — to rebuild our food and farm systems so they work for everyone.
Food & Water Action and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Watch, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate. This email was sent to [email protected] - and we're glad you got it, because it's one of the most important ways you can reclaim political power, hold elected officials accountable and resist corporate control.
