Your Signature is Needed: Tell the USDA to end taxpayer support for abusive factory farms

Friend, your taxpayer dollars support corporate factory farms polluting communities and abusing animals. Here’s how you can help stop it. URGENT ACTION NEEDED: STOP taxpayer funding for factory farms that POLLUTE communities and ABUSE helpless animals! [A]( now!]( Factory farm corporations are raking in MASSIVE PROFITS while they often cram pigs together with barely enough room to breathe and wedge hens into cages so small they can’t even spread their wings. Industrial-scale farming produces 3x MORE FECAL WASTE THAN PEOPLE. And this animal waste often seeps into local waterways, killing fish and other living things. As a result of lax regulations, manure, and other toxic waste can CONTAMINATE OUR AIR, WATER, AND FOOD. [Please, Friend, we need 43 more people from your city to tell the USDA to STOP SUPPORTING abusive factory farms. Add your name now by 11:59pm TONIGHT!]( [Sign the petition]( The USDA has granted millions of dollars to greedy multinational corporations like Tyson, Cargill, Smithfield and JBS that often locate polluting factory farms and slaughterhouses in low-income Black and Brown communities. And because of the unsanitary and crowded conditions for animals, factory farms become DANGEROUS BREEDING GROUNDS FOR BACTERIA AND DISEASE in these communities! We need our public dollars invested in more humane, sustainable food production. Every day we wait to act is another day that your tax dollars are funding this toxic industry that inflicts massive harm on the planet and local communities. [Take action to stop the USDA from using PUBLIC FUNDS to further ENRICH HARMFUL CORPORATIONS!]( [Sign the petition]( Standing with you, Kari Hamerschlag Deputy director of food and agriculture, Friends of the Earth Contact Us: Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA 1-877-843-8687 [Contact us](foe.org/about-us/contact/) Email Preferences: [Click here to unsubscribe]( Learn more: www.foe.org/news www.foe.org/about-us www.foeaction.org Connect: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Flickr]( © 2017, Friends of the Earth. All Rights Reserved. [supporter]