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John,

Animals don’t belong on factory farms.

Factory farms confine large numbers of animals in intensive, unsanitary, and cruel conditions. Pigs endure unrelenting abuse from the day they are born. Dairy cows on factory farms  are treated like milk-producing machines. Hens used for eggs are crammed by the thousands into windowless sheds. And chickens raised for meat are bred to grow so fast they frequently can’t even walk.

But we know there is a better, more humane way. We need a food system that rewards sustainable, diversified farms – farms that treat animals humanely, build rural communities, value their workers, and respect consumers.

Food & Water Action is fighting to overhaul our food system and ban factory farms. You can help. Tell Congress: It’s time to build a more sustainable, humane food system.
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Over time, legal and policy failures allowed a handful of giant corporations like Smithfield, JBS, and Tyson to gain a stranglehold on our food system. They use this power to lobby for weaker animal welfare and environmental protections and less enforcement. States are even proposing or passing laws making it illegal to document animal abuse on factory farms!

Last year, Senator Cory Booker and Representative Ro Khanna reintroduced the Farm System Reform Act – critical legislation that would transition our food system to a healthy, sustainable, equitable model. The Farm System Reform Act would benefit billions of farmed animals each year by:

-- Banning all new and expanding factory farms
-- Transitioning existing factory farms to smaller, diversified operations and
-- Restoring fairness to livestock markets so that independent family farmers can make a fair living raising animals the right way

Ask your members of Congress to co-sponsor the Farm System Reform Act.
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Ban Factory Farms!
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We know that it will take building pressure of all kinds to pass this bill. But passing ambitious farm system legislation is something Food & Water Action — and you — have been working to do for years. We’ve been organizing, speaking out and rallying across the country — all to protect our environment and communities.

It’s not enough to simply advocate for improving regulations on factory farms, and we won’t solve this problem by “voting with our forks.” To create a better food system and humanely raise farmed animals, we have to dismantle the entrenched political power that corporate agriculture has amassed, and that starts with passing the Farm System Reform Act.

Tell your members of Congress to co-sponsor the Farm System Reform Act, and let’s create a more sustainable and humane food system.
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Onward together,

Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Action




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