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.
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 and equitable model. The Farm System Reform Actwould benefit billions of farmed animals each year by:
Banning all new and expanding factory farms
Transitioning existing factory farms to smaller, diversified operations
Restoring fairness to livestock markets so that independent family farmers can make a fair living raising animals the right way
We know that it will take building pressure 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 the 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.
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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