We won’t let giant meat companies get away with their climate lies. FarmSTAND and our allies took Tyson to court for misleading consumers about the climate impact of its beef. Our suit resulted in a historic settlement.

Deep Dive: Tyson’s Climate Deception - FarmSTAND

Most people want to eat food that is good for them and the planet. As awareness of the climate crisis grows, eaters have become more concerned with making sustainable food choices. But many consumers…

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It's not just cyclospora in the lettuce. Other pathogens like salmonella and e. coli are supercharged by factory farming — and gaps in the regulatory system amplify the risk. FarmSTAND's Holly Bainbridge spoke to Grist about the connection. Read the article ➡️

4 things to know about cyclospora and climate change

A fragile food system, uneven public health messaging, and global warming are all working to supercharge the parasite’s spread.

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We just filed a new case against the USDA to block their new grant terms and conditions. The new terms and conditions are an attempt to force organizations to push Trump's anti-diversity, anti-equity, anti-immigrant agenda.

Tyson and other meat corporations have a stranglehold on Americans’ dinner plates; but they don’t control the truth. Tyson said it was selling “climate-smart” beef under the label “Brazen Beef.” They got one thing right — it was brazen to call beef from a huge, industrial feedlot “climate-smart.”

Deep Dive: Tyson’s Climate Deception - FarmSTAND

Most people want to eat food that is good for them and the planet. As awareness of the climate crisis grows, eaters have become more concerned with making sustainable food choices. But many consumers…

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FarmSTAND, Animal Outlook, and We Animals filed comments urging the Federal Aviation Administration not to restrict the use of drone photography to get footage of factory farms, data centers, and other sites. The public has a right to see how these facilities operate.

🙋‍♀️ Raise your hand if you think USDA should focus on helping farmers, not canceling grants flagged for "gender ideology" after some money was spent on feminine hygiene products. Revealing investigation by Sky Chadde and Investigate Midwest ➡️ investigatemidwest.org/2026/07/08/t...

Deep Dive: Trump’s Ten Search Terms to Cancel American Farmers - FarmSTAND

In 2025, USDA abandoned farmers by recklessly terminating millions of dollars in grants, all to fall in line with the Trump administration’s crusade against DEI, environmental justice, and climate…

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The industrial agriculture system forces slaughterhouse workers to work hours without providing the basic relief of bathroom breaks. Nearly everyone has stories of workers peeing on the line. 🧵 (1/4)

If we want clean water, we need to take on Big Ag. Nowhere illustrates this better than Iowa, where concerns about ag pollution, cancer, and water are taking center stage this election cycle. Insightful reporting out of Iowa by @ninaelkadi.com & @tomphilpott.bsky.social buff.ly/egKgxFx

‘Cancer Doesn't Care What Party You Belong To’: Poisoned Water Is Turning This Rural State Bluer

Democrats see an opening in rural states for the first time in decades. In Iowa, it’s about water.

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There is no such thing as “climate-friendly” industrial animal agriculture. When Tyson tried to mislead consumers and greenwash their image, FarmSTAND and our allies exposed the truth. Read more in our newest Deep Dive ➡️ farmstand.org/case/deep-di...

The industrial agriculture system forces slaughterhouse workers to work for hours without providing the basic relief of bathroom breaks. Consequently, nearly everyone has stories of workers peeing on the line. (1/5)

“As our food system has increased its reliance on factory farming over the decades, pathogens like E.coli have made the jump to being standard leafy green contaminants.” farmstand.org/how-industri...

How Industrial Animal Ag is Making Lettuce Dangerous - FarmSTAND

It is no secret that industrial animal agriculture has devastating impacts on our air, water, and communities. A recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study confirms that factory farms are co...

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Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Am I crazy or when we were kids, was *all* food safety energy focused on animal products - raw chicken, mayo, eggs, pork, etc - and zero on produce? I didn’t even know you could get food borne illness from lettuce until adult hood. Is that because things changed and we didn’t have produce outbreaks?

TODAY at 6:30 ET: FarmSTAND's Dave Muraskin will be live on Roland Martin Unfiltered along with Sharon Mallory of 2020 Farmers Cooperative to talk about our case against USDA for illegally terminating grants for being "DEI" or climate: www.youtube.com/user/rolands... @rolandsmartin.bsky.social

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#RolandMartinUnfiltered is a daily show broadcast from Washington, DC, that focuses on news, politics, culture, entertainment, social justice, sports, education, business, and finance. If it’s importa...

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Under the Trump Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has stopped investigating disparate impact discrimination claims. Disparate impact refers to policies that have an unequal impact on members of protected classes.

Big Ag and Big Oil want you to think that factory farm gas is a perfect climate solution. New reporting from MIT Technology Review shows how it trades a decades-long problem for a millennia-long problem. Read more ➡️

Why California’s carbon manure math doesn’t add up

Let's mooooo-ve on from climate shell games

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Trump's Department of Labor is trying to change the rules to lower wages for all farmworkers. Five former secretaries of labor have signed onto an amicus brief we submitted in @ufw.bsky.social's suit to strike down this illegal rule change. MORE ➡️ buff.ly/NYFaySD @ufwfoundation.bsky.social

Trump's new executive order intends to "advance regenerative agriculture." Here's why we're skeptical: thanks to Trump's staff purges and anti-climate science agenda, there is neither the staff nor the funding for these programs.

We just won back $127M for the next generation of farmers! The Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access grants were illegally canceled as part of Trump's anti-DEI purge. Thanks to us and our allies, those grants will be restored to organizations helping build a fair and sustainable food system.

We're deeply disappointed in the Supreme Court's Temporary Protected Status decision. Not only will it jeopardize the lives of 1M+ people, it could destabilize the US economy, particularly in ag. We wrote about the relationship between Big Ag and TPS holders earlier this year ➡️ buff.ly/Y4URz54

We’re standing up for Haitian meatpacking workers. Big Ag won’t. - FarmSTAND

In late January and early February 2026, two federal courts on opposite sides of the country halted the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians. For the…

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The court just ruled that the USDA must restore $127M in illegally canceled Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access grants! Along with @earthjustice.org, @selc.bsky.social, and Farmers Justice Center, we're representing 28 groups fighting back against Trump's anti-DEI agenda.

CDM condemns Supreme Court decisions stripping immigrant protections and threatening farmworker safety. Read more➡️ cdmigrante.org/cdm-condemns...

Farmers and farmworkers have been loud and clear: Monsanto does not speak for them. Today's SCOTUS ruling for Monsanto impunity hurts farmers, farmworkers, and rural communities.

AI data centers powered by dirty factory farm gas? We hope not! The "biogas" industry to turn manure into methane gas further entrenches factory farming, increases pollution, and distracts from real climate action. ambrook.com/offrange/tec...

Your AI Could be Powered by Manure

The biogas industry might have a new customer: data centers.

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Independent ranchers are sick and tired of being forced to pay into shadowy checkoff programs that unfairly benefit Big Ag corporations.

Happy Juneteenth! At FarmSTAND, we celebrate the legacies of liberation and food justice built by Black farmers. The fight isn’t over:

Black Farmers Sue USDA Over $127 Million in Canceled Grants

More than two dozen organizations say the agency violated its due process rights when it eliminated their grants.

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🌡️As summer temperatures rise, so does the need to protect migrant farmworkers from deadly heat stress. Workers on H-2A visas face extreme heat with limited access to medical care, healthy food, and hydration.

WORKERS’ RIGHTS WIN: A judge denied JBS’ outrageous attempt to dismiss our case against JBS for exploiting Haitian slaughterhouse workers. FarmSTAND, @towardsjustice.bsky.social, and Nichols Kaster will push forward to obtain justice for these workers.

The screwworm outbreak threatens the health of animals and the livelihoods of ranchers and food system workers. Factory farms are petri dishes for infection and disease. If this infestation reaches crowded industrial feedlots, the consequences could be severe.

Trump's USDA recently canceled millions of dollars of grants from the Land, Capital, and Market Access program, which funded projects to help farmers historically shut out of the system succeed.

The Land, Capital, and Market (LCM) Access grants were designed to help the next generation of farmers get the resources they need to build local food systems that benefit their communities. The Trump admin's decision to cancel those grants creates more barriers for young, underserved producers.

The USDA just delayed a rule that would make poultry farming more fair for contract growers. 1000s of comments were in favor of the rule and just a dozen from industry leaders were against. Once again, Trump's USDA has put profits over the needs of the people and small farmers are paying the price.

USDA Delays Rule to Protect Poultry Farmers from Unfair Payment Practices

The administration made the industry-supported decision despite thousands of public comments in opposition.

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