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August 27, 2026 In Press Release

Una Clase de consumidores demanda a una gigante industrial salmonera debido a presuntas prácticas de publicidad engañosa respecto a la sostenibilidad de los productos “Mama Bear”

A pesar de promocionarse con una imagen idílica y tierna, el salmón “Mama Bear” proviene de una empresa que opera en la vanguardia del destructivo cultivo industrial de salmón, según una demanda federal presentada hoy....

August 27, 2026 In Press Release

Class of Consumers Sues Industrial Salmon Giant Over Alleged Deceptive Marketing of “Mama Bear” Products’ Sustainability

Despite trading on a cute, pastoral image, Mama Bear salmon is sourced from a company operating at the bleeding edge of destructive industrial salmon farming, according to a federal lawsuit filed today. A Mama Bear purchaser is bringing a putative class action claiming that its...

July 31, 2026 In Press Release

Nonprofits Sue to Block New USDA Rules That Force Them to Change or Abandon Food Access Work

Five nonprofit organizations working to build a more just food system filed suit late yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to challenge unlawful terms and conditions that USDA is imposing on new grants....

July 30, 2026 In Press Release

Groups Sue MN Over Failure To Consider Environmental Impacts of Riverview Mega-Dairy Expansion

Today, Food & Water Watch and the Land Stewardship Project sued the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) over the state’s June 23 decision to forgo an Environmental Impact Statement for Riverview’s proposed West River Dairy expansion near Morris, Minn....

July 27, 2026 In Press Release

Anti-Factory Farming Groups Urge FAA to Reject Rule That Would Shield Animal Agribusiness From Drone Oversight

Groups representing investigative, legal advocacy, and photojournalism efforts to fight factory farming have submitted formal comments to the Federal Aviation Administration opposing a proposed rule that could let large-scale factory farms and slaughterhouses obtain Unmanned Aircraft Flight Restrictions (UAFRs), effectively closing off the airspace above...

July 20, 2026 In Press Release

FarmSTAND Report Explores Details of Tyson’s “Net Zero” and “Climate-Friendly Beef” Greenwashing Scheme

A new report from fair food system advocacy organization FarmSTAND tells the comprehensive inside story behind deceptive claims Tyson Foods made about the environmental sustainability of its products. Tyson claimed in its marketing that it was committed to becoming a net zero business, and that...

July 8, 2026 In Press Release

Five Former Labor Secretaries Call Trump Administration H-2A Wage Calculation Change Unlawful

A new Trump Administration rule regarding the Adverse Effect Wage Rates for workers with H-2A visas and the U.S. workers who work alongside them is slashing wages for U.S. and H-2A farmworkers alike and was adopted unlawfully, according to five former U.S. Secretaries of Labor....

July 1, 2026 In Press Release

Court Restores $127M in Illegally Canceled Grants from USDA’s Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program

A federal district court has issued an order restoring the grants of 24 organizations and local governments who had grant agreements under the USDA’s Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access (LCM) Program....

June 25, 2026 In Press Release

FarmSTAND Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling in Monsanto v. Durnell

"Today’s Supreme Court decision in Monsanto v. Durnell is harmful to farmers and farmworkers. In our amicus brief and in their communities, farmers and farmworkers have made clear that Monsanto does not speak for them when the company says it needs impunity."...

May 27, 2026 In Press Release

Recently Shuttered USDA Program Grantees Join Suit to Restore $125M+ in Illegally Canceled Grants

LCM grantees join initial plaintiffs in case, who won a preliminary injunction restoring critical support for a fairer food system 24 organizations and local governments who had grant agreements under the USDA’s Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access (LCM) Program have joined a lawsuit aiming to...