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Dear Supporter,



“If you want to know what creativity and courage look like in America, talk to a
farmer . . . it is time we listen to them when they tell us that now is the time
for creativity and courage and action.” - Rep. Jim McGovern, speaking at the launch of the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers
for a Green New Deal press conference, September 18, 2019


Last month, a United Nations report prepared by more than 100 experts from 52
countries warned of a looming global food crisis if we don’t hurry up and
address global warming by ending the exploitation of the world’s land and water
resources.


The solution, according to the experts? Change the way we produce food and
manage land.



But how do we do that? When the biggest exploiters of our resources—the
agribusiness and chemical giants—have access to a bottomless pit of money they
can use to influence the people who write our food and farming policies?


We do it by building a grassroots lobbying force too powerful to be ignored.


And we do it by putting the farmers and ranchers who are ready to produce food
and manage land regeneratively in the driver’s seat.


Help us keep up the momentum. Your donation today will help power a national
coalition of U.S. Farmers and Ranchers who will fight for a healthier food and
farming system.
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DONATE [[link removed]]Last week, five members of Congress, along with several farmers, and members of
Regeneration International, the Sunrise Movement, Organic Consumers Association
and other farmer-rancher organizations, stood in front of the U.S. Capitol to
announce the formation of the national coalition of U.S. Farmers and Ranchers
for a Green New Deal.


Earlier that day, we delivered a letter, signed by more than 525 individual
farmers and ranchers, and about 50 organizations representing more than 10,000
farmers and ranchers, asking Congress to support a Green New Deal for farmers
and ranchers.


The press conference in Washington, D.C. was just the start. Now the hard work
begins.


Help us keep up the momentum. Your donation today will help power a national
coalition of U.S. Farmers and Ranchers who will fight for a healthier food and
farming system.
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[[link removed]]Call these farmers regenerative, organic, biodynamic, agroecological . . .
whatever specific practices they’re using to restore soil health, keep your
water clean, build strong local food systems, and produce pesticide-free
nutrient-rich food, these are the farmers who care about the land and water and
animals they manage.


These farmers and ranchers aren’t looking for handouts.


They just want Congress to stop spending billions of dollars to subsidize
corporate polluters who produce contaminated food.


They want a level playing field.


In the coming months and year, the farmers and ranchers in this coalition will
form a speakers bureau. They will fan out into their local communities, where
they’ll talk to consumers, to other farmers, to local and state lawmakers.


They will build powerful alliances with environmental and social and economic
justice organizations.


They will invite members of Congress out to their farms and ranches, to see for
themselves how regenerative farming and grazing restores wildlife habitats and
builds healthy soils that store carbon and capture and hold precious rainfall.


And they will travel to Washington to hold hearings on Capitol Hill, to
personally meet with members of Congress, to lobby for laws that will empower
them to be good stewards of the land, while also allowing them to make a decent
living.


And every law these farmers and ranchers will lobby for, will be a law that
benefits you.


If you value clean air, clean water and healthy food, if you care about the
environment, if you care about social and economic justice, these farmers and
ranchers will be working for you.


But they’ll need your help.


Help us keep up the momentum. Your donation today will help power a national
coalition of U.S. Farmers and Ranchers who will fight for a healthier food and
farming system.
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DONATE [[link removed]]Thank you!

P.S. Farmers and ranchers are already among the hardest-working people in this
country. They’re willing to work even harder. But they need your help. Please
support the work of this valuable coalition with a generous donation today
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the section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All charitable donations are
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