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August 25, 2026 In Blog

We Won’t Let the Trump Administration Twist the Truth on Dangerous Line Speeds

By Nathaly Lozado Arreaga 2026 Summer Intern (Reducetarian Fellow) A fair food system should ensure all workers can labor safely, and with dignity – even in slaughterhouses. No worker should sacrifice their health to make a living. Yet, workers in industrial meat processing are disproportionately likely to...

Farmworkers harvest strawberries in a field, and load full cartons onto a truck.

August 3, 2026 In Blog

Big Ag is Pushing for More Power Over the Food System Workforce. We’re Fighting Back.

A fair food system is one in which workers receive a livable wage and where they feel safe to defend their rights at work. But the United States’ food system is built on a long history of oppression and exploitation. Due to agricultural exceptionalism, farmworkers...

A crew of H-2A seasonal farm workers harvest sweet potatoes on a farm in Eastern North Carolina in mid October

April 29, 2026 In Blog

Isolated, Intimidated, and Exploited: Why Labor Camp Access Matters

Farmworkers, like everyone else, deserve to work safely, with fair pay, without fear, and with dignity. But the reality is the industrial food system often deprives farmworkers of their legal and human rights. Isolation and power imbalance make it hard for workers to advocate for...

April 13, 2026 In Blog

Child Farmworkers Suffer in Our Food System. Will the Supreme Court Make Things Worse?

A fair food system produces food that is nourishing and safe to eat. That food emerges from soil that is fertile and rich, rather than depleted by cancer-causing pesticides and herbicides. In a fair food system, the farmworkers that harvest our food are treated with...

March 27, 2026 In Blog

This S*** Stinks: Big Ag and Big Oil’s Dirty Biogas Scam

If you take Big Ag execs at their word, they’ve found the miracle solution to climate change. By converting the poop from cows into “biogas” or “renewable natural gas,” their massive factory farm facilities are creating a new, sustainable source of energy out of waste...

A group of workers in a meat processing facility cut up meat with sharp knives

February 13, 2026 In Blog

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

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 roughly 350,000 Haitians who rely on TPS to lawfully live and work in the...

A trifold poster board with the header "A food system where... Un sistema alimentario donde..." On the poster board, conference attendees wrote short messages of what they'd like to see in a food system in English and Spanish on colorful fruit cutouts, which they attached to the board. For example "No one is exploited" is written on a pear, and "trabajo con respeto y dignidad"

December 17, 2025 In Blog, Uncategorized

Going on Offense for Food Justice: FarmSTAND’s 2025 in Review

2025 has been a hard year. From the start, the second Trump Administration has waged cruel assaults on America’s most vulnerable communities: immigrants, workers, activists, and anyone who dares to stand up against injustice and corporate control. These attacks touch all parts of our food...

Three open bathroom stalls with toilets inside

November 18, 2025 In Blog

Food Workers Deserve Better Than Diapers and Shewees

Industrial food production relies on people holding their bladders to the point of bursting or beyond. The industrial agriculture system turns animals into meat like this: workers stand on disassembly lines performing their assigned task over and over for hours on end. Substitute workers can...

Multi generational farmer team holding wood boxes with fresh organic vegetables

October 7, 2025 In Blog

America’s unfair food system was built on lending discrimination. We’re fighting back.

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 hard year of low prices or bad weather. But agricultural credit has never...

A woman looks at meat products in a case in a supermarket

September 25, 2025 In Blog

Why we can’t “offset” our way to a just and humane food system

At FarmSTAND, we’re optimists. That doesn’t mean we have Pollyannaish hope. It means we lean into the hard work of making tangible change in our food system day by day, person by person, community by community — even when the impacts of our work may...