Food & Agriculture
We work to rapidly transition our food system to one that is sustainable, healthy, and just. For decades, United States food and farming policy, corporate power and agricultural science have been directed toward a narrow goal: producing as many calories as possible as cheaply as possible. The confluence of these forces has created a powerful river of toxic, energy-intensive factory farming. We are eroding public health, worker safety, local economies, animal welfare, and the resilience of the ecosystems we depend on. Solutions are available — if policymakers, people and businesses make vitally needed changes. We must farm in a way that protects the health of people and the planet. We seek three fundamental shifts in our food system: from toxic and chemical intensive to healthy and ecologically regenerative; from corporate controlled to democratically governed; and from a system that embodies the deepest inequities in our society to one that advances justice and fulfills the needs of all eaters now and in the future.
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Food & Agriculture Tell Kroger: Step up and protect beesTAKE ACTION
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Food & Agriculture Tell Darden: Stop serving meat raised with routine antibioticsTAKE ACTION
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Food & Agriculture Tell your state Attorney General: Stop the mega-merger of Bayer & MonsantoTAKE ACTION
It is clear that House Republicans have no interest in passing a bi-partisan Farm Bill that addresses the needs of vulnerable families, struggling farmers and ranchers, and our imperiled soil, air and water resources.
This regressive Farm Bill doubles down on a failing food system that harms our health, decimates soil and pollinators, pollutes our water, and leaves us vulnerable to climate chaos.
The Department of Justice has chosen to green light the Bayer-Monsanto merger despite widespread opposition from farmers and other stakeholders across the country.
Based on a recent poll, 91.7 percent of farmers surveyed are concerned that Bayer-Monsanto will control data about farm practices.
While the Trump administration sides with Dow over our children, workers, rural communities and pollinators, we must act to get this pesticide out of our food system.
A new scorecard from Friends of the Earth shows that top food retailers are failing to protect bees and people from toxic pesticides.
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DownloadGMO Animal Replacement Products
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Learn MoreSwarming the Aisles II
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