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This is the first in FarmSTAND's new series where we explain how current topics relate to the fight for food justice. See the full post on Instagram, and follow us for more.
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Despite MAHA's claims to be revolutionizing our food system, they're keeping corporate interests in control of what we eat. The new dietary guidelines are a gift to Big Ag meat and dairy companies, courtesy of the lobbyists who helped write them.

In January, the federal government announced its new dietary guidelines, which turned the food pyramid upside down and put meat and dairy at the top.

We just filed a motion in the hopes of unsealing important documents in a case involving ag data service Agri Stats. We have a right to know how Big Ag operates, and Agri Stats's data informs decisions about wages and pricing.

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The Trump Admin is rolling back worker protections and gutting enforcement. Workers will suffer while huge corporations get a free pass to exploit workers for maximum profit.

FarmSTAND is stepping up to enforce worker protection laws that Trump won't. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Racist, anti-immigrant agenda🤝Big Ag companies that exploit immigrants and refugees for profit

We're standing up for Haitian meatpackers who endure discrimination at work AND uncertainty and fear about their immigration status. Read more on the blog: farmstand.org/were-standin...

We've said it before and we'll say it again: MAHA and the Trump Admin won't transform our food system. With glyphosate, MAHA shows its true colors: bending over backwards to protect corporate profits over human and environmental health.

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UPDATE: New docs from the USDA show staffers using the "DEI template" and flagging "egregious sounding climate grants" while taking away millions from farmers and organizations creating a better food system.

Read more in our updated Deep Dive ➡️ farmstand.org/cancelation-keywords

Trump’s DHS is pushing the boundaries of probable cause and due process to fuel a farm labor crisis - Investigate Midwest By Sky Chadde, Investigate Midwest Before sunrise in northwestern Oregon in early August, seven farmworkers filed into an aging Ford Econoline van. As they headed toward one of the state’s economic…

Immigrants hold up our food system. Great reporting by Investigate Midwest reveals the appalling treatment these workers receive from DHS, including meat processing workers held by ICE for months despite a judge approving their release ➡️ buff.ly/U4XJKUJ

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Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Advance Offshore U.S. Aquaculture The MARA Act would mean more research on farming in deep ocean waters. This time, it has a good chance of passing.

Our government should protect our oceans—not let mega-corporations create industrial fish factories like the factory farms that dominate land-based agriculture.

We signed on to a letter from 420 groups opposing MARA.

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Defending the Rights of Seasonal Agricultural Workers - FarmSTAND Agricultural workers of all kinds —including seasonal workers on H-2A visas — deserve basic workplace protections, including the right to meet with guests and service providers in the workers’…

FarmSTAND uses litigation to defend the rights of seasonal agricultural workers, including H-2A workers ➡️ farmstand.org/case/defendi...

Everyone in Washington wants to ‘reform’ agriculture’s main visa program | Food and Environment Reporting Network Shortly after Gustavo started working as a sheepherder in Cokeville, Wyoming, he says his boss took his passport. Over the years that followed, he and his brother, Iván, herded up to 2,000…

The H-2A program should be reformed to protect vulnerable workers — not to create a permanent foreign ag worker underclass ➡️ thefern.org/2026/02/ever...

Manure-to-Energy Digesters Were Sold as a Climate Fix. Now the USDA Is Hitting Pause. A 90-day pause due to “loan delinquency” may signal that the viability of anaerobic digesters is being scrutinized at the federal level.

“What’s to stop this other conglomerate of people and investors from Appleton that don’t live here?” Brenner says. “They don’t have a house here. They couldn’t care less what happens to our roads and to our wells and to our rivers, and it’s all about the money. They’ve got millions invested.”

Despite Federal Immigrant Crackdown, Food Workers Sue Over Workplace Abuses Farm and meatpacking workers are going to court seeking justice, even as the Trump administration's deportation efforts threaten their status.

FarmSTAND's Amal Bouhabib spoke to @civileats.com about our case against JBS and how Big Ag "relies on immigrant labor" but treats immigrant workers as "expendable." Read the full story ➡️ civileats.com/2026/02/09/d...

Publicly, Big Ag execs cheer Trump's immigration agenda. But behind closed doors, they're panicking as Haitian TPS workers wait in limbo. Read why on the blog: farmstand.org/were-standin...

That's why we're proud to have represented @healfoodalliance.bsky.social in an amicus brief to fight for a fair agricultural credit system.

America’s unfair food system was built on lending discrimination. We’re fighting back. - FarmSTAND American agriculture relies on credit as much as it does seeds, soil, rain, and sun. Without credit, farmers cannot invest in tractors, livestock, or new irrigation systems. They may not survive a…

This Black History Month, learn how credit lending discrimination dating back to the end of the Civil War forced hundreds of thousands of Black farmers off their land. To this day, unfair lending upholds the systems that exploit communities of color for Big Ag profits.

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These Haitian meatpacking workers may be deported. They voted to strike anyway. | Food and Environment Reporting Network This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them.

Courage looks like Haitian meatpacking workers suing JBS for discrimination, despite Trump, Noem, and Big Ag stoking deportation fears and uncertainty. We're proud to represent them.

Now, workers from many backgrounds at the Greeley plant have authorized a strike.

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Industrial scale fish farming is a disaster for our water, ecosystems, and local economies — just like land-based factory farming. 🌎🐟🌊 We signed on to a letter urging congress to stop legislation to industrialize aquaculture buff.ly/6uHRqH5
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The largely immigrant workforce at JBS's flagship U.S. plant, in Greeley, Colorado, is refusing to back down after accusing the company of poor working conditions. Reporting by Ted Genoways for FERN and Mother Jones. Photography by Maryanne Andrei.

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No, Americans Won’t Fill Big Ag Jobs. Corporations Prefer It That Way. - FarmSTAND In creatively cruel ways, President Trump is making good on his promise to carry out the largest mass deportation in history. Across the country, heavily armed federal agents in camouflage storm…

The idea that deportations will lead to a resurgence of American farm and factory labor is not just wrong — it’s a lie. It was never about protecting American workers. It’s about protecting Big Ag’s ability to exploit a vulnerable workforce.

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Deep Dive: Checkoff - FarmSTAND We’re fighting in courtrooms and communities to dismantle the barriers to a fair food system led by independent food producers—including by taking on USDA’s checkoff programs.

Where do these organizations get their money? Corrupt checkoff programs ranchers and farmers are forced to pay for. Read our Deep Dive unmasking the powerful and shady checkoff system: farmstand.org/case/deep-di...

Op-Ed: The Government Wants You to Follow Their Food Pyramid. We Have a Better Alternative. The new Dietary Guidelines serve corporate interests and the Make America Healthy Again leadership, not the people of this country. Our version is built on decades of evidence-based research.

A key fact to understanding the new dietary guidelines: Big Ag had a big say, thanks to authors' financial ties to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the National Pork Board, and the National Dairy Council.

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Ending TPS for Haitians The ruling pauses the Trump administration’s plan to end a program that has allowed more than 350,000 people from Haiti to remain in the United States.

Haitian TPS holders are invaluable members of our communities and their work holds up the food system. We're glad to see Trump and Noem's shameful attack on TPS recipients blocked. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

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NW Natural seeks to shift cost of failed RNG investment to customers NW Natural customers may be on the hook for millions of dollars after a beef processing plant that produced some of the company’s renewable natural gas is set to close this month.

We're suing Northwest Natural for misleading consumers about the climate friendliness of factory farm gas through its energy offsets program.

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NW Natural seeks to shift cost of failed RNG investment to customers NW Natural customers may be on the hook for millions of dollars after a beef processing plant that produced some of the company’s renewable natural gas is set to close this month.

Northwest Natural, an Oregon utility, is trying to shift $8.3M in losses to consumers after a failed factory farm gas deal. Factory farm gas is a method of producing energy using livestock manure, and despite the claims of Big Ag and fossil fuel companies, it is not a solution to the climate crisis.

Environmental Organizations Ask USDA to Stop Subsidizing Manure Digesters Over 30 environmental organizations want USDA to stop subsidizing manure-to-biogas machinery that they argue entrenches large, polluting livestock operations, promotes farm consolidation, and wastes…

Organizing > Big Ag power. 30+ orgs asked the USDA to stop subsidizing factory farm gas in the Rural Energy for America Program, and the USDA issued a 90-day pause on those grants. Factory farm gas increases pollution, entrenches the factory farm system, and costs millions.

We're suing Pacific Seafood for polluting Oregon's Columbia River and costing the community its health and quality of life. Industrial aquaculture has the same harms as industrial ag. Suits like ours hold the industry accountable before it grows to Big Ag's level of power.

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