Our current industrial food system extorts consumers and robs them of real choices; exploits workers in the fields, factory farms, and slaughterhouses; and confines billions of animals in cruel, inhumane and unsanitary conditions.
Tyler Lobdell
Staff Attorney
Food & Water Action and Food & Water Watch
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Food & Water Action is fighting to make sure our food system is safe and reliable. And this month, you can have a big impact on that fight — your donation will be TRIPLED!For every $1 you give, a generous group of donors will unlock $2.
Our current food system is unsafe and unreliable because it’s controlled by a handful of giant corporations.
Corporations like Tyson, JBS, Cargill and Smithfield have consolidated their way to a stranglehold on our food. And the bought-and-paid-for politicians and so-called regulators who are supposed to look out for consumers, farmers and the environment are afraid to take on those corporate giants. But Food & Water Action isn’t.
Our goal is to create a safer, more reliable food system — and banning factory farms would go a long way toward that goal.
Big Ag corporations lie to people about how our food is grown, how it's regulated, and how it impacts our health and communities. They try to manipulate us into thinking our food system is safe and reliable while their lobbyists work to derail or delay needed change. They give the illusion the system is working for everyone, but it isn't.
In reality, our current industrial food system extorts consumers and robs them of real choices; locks farmers into abusive contracts and high debt; freezes out farmers of color from federal loans and subsidies; exploits workers in the fields, factory farms, and slaughterhouses; and confines billions of animals in cruel, inhumane and unsanitary conditions.
We won’t let this continue.
And we’re making real progress in our fight against factory farms. A huge win this year in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is a step toward reining in factory farm pollution and making our water, food and communities safer.
The Clean Water Act requires factory farms to follow strict permits limiting pollution. Those permits don’t work on an honor system; polluters have to monitor and publicly report on their discharges. Monitoring keeps them in check.
But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carved out an exception for factory farms, foolishly assuming they wouldn’t pollute. That approach was laughable — and illegal. So when EPA issued a permit in Idaho that left out monitoring, Food & Water Action took it to court. And we won!
This means that polluting factory farms in Idaho must now comprehensively monitor and report on water pollution for the first time. More importantly, the precedent is relevant for factory farms everywhere. We’re starting work across the country to use this win to regulate factory farm pollution everywhere going forward.
With your help, Food & Water Action is changing the fundamental structure of our food system — so our food is safer, and our communities and waters aren’t dumps for toxic pollution.
Tarah Heinzen
Legal Director
Food & Water Action and Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Action and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Watch, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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