Advocates Ask Court for Judgment in Suit Against Law That Silences Industry Whistle-Blowers

BOISE – On Tuesday, April 28, the U.S…

March 5, 2015 (Washington, DC)—Center for Food Safety is today calling on Wyoming Governor Mead to veto “ag-gag” bill S.F. 12. The bill would criminalize the documentation of day-to-day activities on factory farms, which has been used to reveal food safety and animal welfare violations…

“McDonald's is setting the bar for the entire fast food industry.”

Washington D.C (March 4, 2015) – Center for Food Safety today applauded the announcement by McDonald's that the company will require poultry suppliers to stop using certain antibiotics…

Agency Repeatedly Approved Pig Drugs Banned in Dozens of Countries

Contact:
Abigail Seiler, Center for Food Safety, (202) 547-9359
Jonathan Evans, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 436-9682 x318

November 6, 2014 (SAN FRANCISCO) – Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club …

Center for Food Safety Will Keep Fighting for “COOL” Rules

Washington D.C. (October 20, 2014) – The World Trade Organization (WTO) yesterday announced its opinion that the United States’ county-of-origin labeling law, known as COOL, violates the WTO rules…

Case Moves Forward to Challenge State Law That Silences Factory Farm Whistle-Blowers

Today, a federal district court allowed an “ag gag” lawsuit to proceed against the state of Idaho in the constitutional challenge brought by a coalition of national nonprofits, including the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), People for the Ethical Treatment of…

Center for Food Safety Challenges FDA to Issue Mandatory Regulation

Center for Food Safety (CFS) today expressed support for Perdue Food’s decision to end the use of antibiotics in hatcheries…

Center for Food Safety today criticized the final rule issued by the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) that purportedly “modernizes” poultry inspection at slaughterhouses…

DC Circuit Court Upholds Country Of Origin Labeling Rules

Today, the Washington D.C. Court of Appeals upheld the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) rule which requires information about where meat is raised and slaughtered. USDA drafted COOL rules in 2009 and finalized them in 2013…

Policy Director Elizabeth Kucinich to meet with legislators and press on Monday, day of the vote

On Monday, legislators in New Jersey will hold a vote to overturn a controversial veto by Governor Chris Christie on a bill to ban gestation crates in New Jersey hog farming…

Challenges to Industry Use of Ractopamine and Zilpaterol in Light of Animal Welfare, Food Safety Concerns

Today, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S…

Court allows groups’ first stage of contamination lawsuits to proceed

Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) and theCenter for Food Safety (CFS) – represented by Public Justice, P.C., Law Offices of Charles M…

Agriculture organizations ask FDA to halt antibiotic use in fuel byproduct sold as animal feed

According to a legal petition submitted today to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), antibiotic use in ethanol production is illegal, unnecessary and adds to the catastrophic public health threat from antibiotic-resistant infections in humans…

Despite the threat of a lawsuit, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) is continuing to improperly withhold information vital to the public health, acting in direct dereliction of its duties under the Freedom of Information Act.  In December, 2012, EPA sampled groundwater in various areas surrounding five of Yakima Valley’s largest dairies.  The sampling occurred as part o…

Following years of violations, threat of lawsuits forces industrial dairies to publicly report data.

Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS)—represented by Public Justice, P.C., Law Offices of Charles M…

Citizens react to dairies’ failure to change practices and regulators’ wait-and-see approach

Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) – represented by Public Justice, P.C., Law Offices of Charles M…

U.S. Insistence on Feed Additive “Ractopamine” Causes Alarm Worldwide

The Center for Food Safety applauds Russia’s ban on U.S. beef, pork and turkey products because the meats may include a feed additive known as ractopamine. In December, 2012 Center for Food Safety and the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) jointly filed a petition with the U.S…

Petition calls for a review of ractopamine use in nation’s meat industry; cites animal welfare, food safety concerns and widespread international ban

Today, Center for Food Safety and the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a petition with the U.S…

Pollution of local waterways, public health at stake from farm lobby actions

A coalition of local and national public interest organizations have asked a federal court for permission to participate in a legal action that will decide when Clean Water Act restrictions apply to the release of pollutants in animal manure into local waterways used for recreation, drinking and…

Threatened lawsuits come on heels of EPA finding of significant groundwater contamination in residential wells

The Center for Food Safety and the Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) Wednesday warned four major Yakima Valley factory farms that they will take them to federal court unless, in the next 90 days, the farms stop contaminatin…

USDA Further Delays Critical Organic Welfare Rule, Betraying Organic Farmers, Consumers, and Animals

This is the third time the rules, which were developed through 17 years of stakeholder input and finalized under Obama, have been delayed from going into effect by the Trump Administration.

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