The Food & Farm System We Need and Deserve: A Webinar Series
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the huge cracks in our highly consolidated industrial food system, proving it’s far less resilient than the diversified, regional operations it replaced. Now more than ever, it’s time to transition to a …
18 Organizations Call on Governor Reynolds to Enforce a 6-Month Moratorium on Factory Farms
Local, State, and National Groups Unite in Support of Immediate Moratorium on Factory Farms Amid Covid-19 Crisis Des Moines, IA – Iowans overwhelmed by COVID-19 crisis are infuriated by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ removal of environm …
U.S. Senator Booker (D-NJ) introduces a national factory farm moratorium
CCI members point to the growing in-state and national momentum ahead of the 2020 legislative session For Immediate release: 12/17/19 Des Moines, IA – Yesterday Senator Booker (D-NJ) introduced a national factory farm moratorium. The Farm System Reform …
Prestage Foods has $24.3 million public dollars
How do we hold them accountable with our money? We need to send IED Director Debi Durham a message. Sign the petition! In 2016 the Prestage slaughterhouse received $24.3 million public dollars in subsidies to build in Eagle Grove. That’s money tha …
Tell your representatives NO NAFTA
NAFTA: Putting family farmers out of business since 1994 Since NAFTA’s start in 1994, “free trade” schemes have dramatically increased corporate profits at the expense of everyday people, including the hundreds of thousands of U.S. farmers who have bee …