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At Food & Water Watch, we’re fighting to change how we produce and distribute food in our country. Our goal is to create a just and sustainable food system. Banning factory farms will go a long way towards getting us there.

Please consider making a donation to help take on Big Ag and ban factory farms.
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John,

Corporations like Tyson, JBS, Cargill and Smithfield have a stranglehold on our food system. And the bought-and-paid-for politicians and so-called regulators who are supposed to be looking out for farmers, eaters and the environment are afraid to take those corporate giants on.

These corporations work to manipulate the debate over how our food is grown, how it's regulated, and how it impacts our health and communities. Meanwhile, lobbyists work to delay real change with schemes and scams that give the illusion the system is working for everyone.

Our current industrial food system:
-locks farmers into abusive contracts and high debt
-freezes out farmers of color from federal loans and subsidies
-exploits workers in dangerous conditions in the nation’s fields, factory farms and slaughterhouses
-raises billions of animals in cruel and inhumane conditions

Factory farms also put our health and food supply at risk. Their waste pollutes the environment and our drinking water. They wreck rural communities and put family farms out of business — all while tightening the corporate stranglehold on our food.

We can’t let this continue.

Help Fight Big Ag
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Food & Water Watch is fighting to change the fundamental structure of our food system so our food is safer, animals are treated humanely, workers are treated fairly, and our communities and our waters are not a dumping ground for toxic pollution.

We are working to:

Ban factory farms — We are working to advance the Farm System Reform Act, legislation that would ban the largest factory farms and help farmers transition to more sustainable farming practices.

Stop Big Ag mega-mergers — We are supporting legislation to impose a moratorium on agribusiness, food and beverage manufacturing and grocery retail mega-mergers, and establish stronger federal oversight of Big Ag market power.

Make real change with on-the-ground organizing — We are working with allies, volunteers and supporters to fight the build-out of factory farm gas (biogas digesters) in Delaware, fight for a factory farm ban in Iowa, and fight for a mega-dairy moratorium in Oregon.

Challenge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Big Ag in court:
-For over a decade the EPA has declined to strengthen factory farm standards for the industry’s water pollution. That’s why we are leading challenges against the EPA’s failures to regulate water pollution and to require water pollution monitoring at factory farms.
-We have filed a lawsuit against Smithfield Foods for false and misleading advertising related to its failure to protect its workers, as well as its fear-mongering about the risk of meat shortages during COVID.

Help Fight Big Ag
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The past year has shown how unjust and unfair our food system truly is. Small and medium-sized independent farms can feed us and be good stewards of the land — but not if we allow mega-corporations to rig the system and force them out of business.

We need to take back our power and break Big Ag’s stranglehold. Let’s work together to rebuild our food and farm systems so they work for everyone. Make a donation today to help fight Big Ag, ban factory farms, and work toward a sustainable and just food system.
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Onward together,

Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Watch


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