Cases

Big Aquaculture is following the same model of environmental degradation, worker exploitation, and consumer deception as the land-based corporate animal agriculture system. The complaint in this action alleges that behind the cutesy family of bears and claims of being “Sustainably Farm-Raised” and “responsibly sourced” on...

Mega-dairies, which confine tens of thousands of cows, create devastating environmental and economic impacts on the communities where they take root. Despite the known impacts on clean water and greenhouse gas emissions, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency decided to forgo an Environmental Impact Statement for...

In 2026, The Trump Administration’s USDA began imposing unlawful, unprecedented department-wide terms and conditions on every new USDA grant. These terms and conditions substantially restrict grantees’ speech and programming in support of diversity and equity, bar using grant funding on whatever the administration says is “promoting gender ideology”, and limit grantees’ work in support of immigrants.

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 action. We suspected that the “process” for finding grants the administration found worthy of termination was hardly more than a simple search through grant documents for words it associated with diversity, equity, inclusion, or climate change. Now we can prove it.

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 don’t fully grasp how damaging industrial meat production in particular is for the climate. Climate-conscious consumers want to buy foods that are better for the planet. They are even willing to pay more for foods that match their values. But actually knowing which foods are better is no easy task. Many eaters rely on labels and information on food packaging, like claims that a product creates fewer greenhouse gas emissions, to judge if a food is climate-friendly.

Colorado’s landmark 2021 Farm Worker Bill of Rights enshrined the right of agricultural workers to receive visitors at their housing, including employer-owned housing. This includes visitors like lawyers from Colorado Legal Services (CLS), Colorado’s statewide nonprofit legal aid program, who routinely attempt to visit with farm workers to inform them of their rights and available resources.

Click here to read this case page in English. La histórica Ley de Derechos de Trabajadores Agrícolas de Colorado en el año 2021 aseguró el derecho de personas trabajadoras agrícolas de recibir visitantes en vivienda proveída por su empleador. Esto incluye visitantes como abogados de...

Trump’s USDA illegally terminated hundreds of grants to organizations across the country that counted on these funds to advance sustainability and support farmers building a fair food system. We’re suing to restore this funding.

JBS, the largest meat company in the world, exploited over 1,000 Haitian workers recruited under false pretenses for its Greeley, Colorado plant to boost corporate profits. Starting in late 2023, JBS began recruiting Haitians via TikTok, promising employment without English language requirements and free housing...

A just, healthy, and thriving food system requires transparency. Public Justice engages in litigation to strike down the Ag-Gag laws that penalize whistleblowers who expose the truth about the factory farm system.

Throughout our food system, you’ll find Big Ag corporations playing dirty, manipulating the system to boost their profits while producers and consumers pay the cost. In 2023, the United States, joined by several state attorneys general, sued the data services company Agri Stats for allegedly violating the Sherman Act and enabling Big Ag processors and integrators to weaken competition and increase prices.