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Hens are crammed into tiny cages where they can’t spread their wings. Mother pigs are kept in pens where they are barely able to move. Yet the factory farming industry continues these awful practices in reckless pursuit of profit. Friend, Big Meat and Dairy don’t want you to know about these kinds of horrific abuses happening behind the scenes. Stop the expansion of this brutal industry: donate $27 to help us reach our $4,400 goal by midnight!
Each moment from birth to slaughter, animals in factory farms are raised in filthy, cramped, and inhumane conditions. Many of them spend their entire lives never seeing the light of day or breathing fresh air. What’s worse -- the mountains of pollution emitted from these operations poison the air and water of nearby communities, affecting their health and further driving the climate crisis.
Big Meat and Dairy companies are perpetuating this intolerable cruelty and climate disaster -- and the USDA and EPA let them get away with it, while the USDA actually supports some of the worst Big Meat and Dairy corporations with taxpayer-supported grants. We cannot continue allowing factory farming to inflict so much damage on animals, humans, and the planet. We must stop subsidizing this industry and put in place policies that will prevent mega meat corporations from destroying our only Earth and wreaking havoc on human health and animal welfare. Will you stand with us, Friend?
Help us stop public funding for mega meat corporations that are harming people, destroying our planet, and abusing animals. Donate $27 or more and help us reach our $4,400 goal today.
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Factory farms produce toxic pollutants that severely degrade the air and quality of life of the communities nearby -- many of which are low-income, Black and brown communities.
In fact, mega-farms produce over 885 billion pounds of manure per year -- and when it seeps into the soil and reaches nearby water sources, it can pollute drinking water, kill fish, and render nearby waterways unsafe. The antibiotics in this waste can foster antibiotic-resistant bacteria that harm human health!
What’s more, cramming genetically similar animals in overcrowded, dirty, inhumane, and stressful conditions makes the animals more susceptible to infection -- a dangerously perfect breeding ground for diseases like swine flu and avian flu. Yet, Big Meat continues to understate its environmental impacts -- and people are already paying the price.
Factory farming even hurts the people employed in the industry. Farmers are trapped in exploitive contracts with massive corporations like Tyson Foods and JBS. And workers in meatpacking plants face dangerous working conditions -- from a lack of COVID protections to pressure to process meat at ever-faster speeds, increasing the likelihood of injuries like lacerations in order to increase the companies’ profits.
The entire business model of mega meat corporations is based on keeping their costs as low as possible through poor working conditions and unsustainable practices that drive us closer to climate catastrophe. And our government allows them to keep lining their pockets rather than protect the health of people, animals, and our planet.
Mega meat corporations are harming animals, people, and the environment. Help us fight back by making your contribution of $27 or more to Friends of the Earth Action today!
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Because of the large profit margins in factory farming, mega meat corporations continue to push the limits of the number of animals they can pack into fewer farms. Between 1960 and 2002, small farmers were driven out as the number of farms in the U.S. decreased by 50%. Meanwhile, the number of animals on these farms soared. In 2020, 1.6 billion animals were confined in just 25,000 factory farms.
We can’t allow Big Ag to continue to wreak havoc on communities and animals. Unless we challenge the hand-outs of public dollars and lax regulations that prop up factory farming, Big Meat corporations like Smithfield, Tyson, and JBS will never change their practices.
Friends of the Earth Action is working for a healthy, equitable, and sustainable food system that supports a just transition away from factory farms and protects our planet from Big Polluters, and your membership support can help power that work.
These destructive, greedy practices must be stopped, Friend: for the sake of communities, the planet, and animals. Until we rein in the power of Big Meat by changing policy and enacting stronger regulations, factory farms will continue to wreak havoc. We must step up our efforts quickly before the damage becomes too great to reverse. Please, donate $27 or more before the clock strikes midnight to help us reach our $4,400 goal.
Big Ag is putting people and the planet at risk. Fight back by donating $27 today to help us reach our $4,400 goal.
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Standing with you,
Kari Hamerschlag
Deputy director of food and agriculture,
Friends of the Earth Action
