Far from the idyllic images of animals on family farms you see at the grocery store, the vast majority of farmed animals are raised on factory farms designed to do one thing: confine large numbers of animals in intensive, unsanitary, and cruel conditions, while fattening them unnaturally on industrial feed. These conditions foster the spread of disease and routinely subject animals to brutality and violence.
Animals on factory farms are treated as commodities, not as living beings — humane treatment always takes a back seat to profit. The Farm System Reform Act would ban all new and expanding factory farms, enforce environmental laws, and transition existing factory farms to smaller, diversified operations — benefiting billions of farmed animals each year. Tell Congress: It’s time to build a more sustainable, humane food system.
For generations, small and mid-sized farms reliably fed people and cared for the environment and animals — factory farms upended this relationship. Today, legal and policy failures have allowed a handful of giant corporations like Smithfield, JBS, and Tyson to have a stranglehold on our food system. They use this power to lobby for weaker animal welfare and environmental protections, as well as less enforcement. States are even proposing or passing laws making it illegal to document animal abuse on factory farms.
But we know there is a better, more humane way. That’s why Food & Water Action is fighting to break industrial agriculture’s stranglehold on our food system. We're working to pass a national ban on factory farms, suing to defeat unconstitutional ag-gag laws, and pushing for stronger environmental protections that make it harder for factory farms to continue with business as usual. Send your message: Tell Congress to ban factory farms and end their cruelty.
It’s not enough to simply advocate for improving regulations on factory farms, and we won’t solve this problem with our individual food choices — by “voting with our forks.” To protect farmed animals we have to dismantle the entrenched political power that corporate agriculture has amassed. It’s time to say enough is enough.
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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