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 Target to stop selling food grown with toxic pesticides!TAKE ACTION
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Food & Agriculture Tell Lowe’s and Home Depot: Stop selling bee-killing RoundupTAKE ACTION
The report released by Trump’s MAHA Commission today is a slap in the face to the millions of Americans, from health-conscious moms to environmental advocates to farmers, who have been calling for meaningful action on pesticides.
EPA’s decision to walk away from updating slaughterhouse pollution standards is a direct contradiction to Make America Healthy Again.
Trump's MAHA Commission draft strategy is a gift to the agrochemical industry and a slap in the face to the health of the American people and the MAHA voters that helped elect him.
FOE’s close work with legislative champions enabled the negotiation of an effective bill to restrict neonic pesticides on more than half a million acres of lawn, turf, and grass.
Our advocacy made it crystal clear: People do not want to eat GE salmon and there is no place for this or other GE animals on the market.
The judge said it best — science shows that GE technology is harmful. Thanks to this court case, the basic oversight needed to protect us has been restored.
Across the Eastern Shore, large-scale industrial poultry operations collectively raise nearly 300 million chickens a year. Their manure — more than 500 million pounds annually — doesn’t just vanish.
Regenerative agriculture is gaining attention as a powerful response to the environmental damage caused by industrial farming.
What are CAFOs? They are an example of industrial agriculture, which aims to produce as many calories as possible as cheaply as possible.