Our Mission

For more than 25 years, Center for Food Safety’s pioneering legal, policy, and campaign strategies have led a revolution to transform our food system—curbing the use of toxic pesticides and GMOs in agriculture and promoting an organic, ecological, and just food and farming system. This innovative work has led to countless victories. We’ve won high-profile lawsuits against Monsanto to protect public health and endangered species from pesticides like the cancer-causing Roundup, drift-prone dicamba, bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides, and toxic fungicides. We stopped GMO wheat, rice, potatoes, tomatoes, fish, trees, and grass and won GMO labeling fights to ensure we all know what’s in our food. We’ve protected organic standards from pesticides and GMOs, and succeeded in ensuring humane animal welfare is required for organic certification. We’ve shut down polluting mega-factory farms from Hawai‘i to Washington to New York. And because of our litigation, over 270,000 miles of U.S. ocean waters remain free of industrial fish farms.

With you by our side, we share a collective vision for a food future that benefits all life on Earth—allowing every living being and species to thrive. A food future which ensures that every adult and child has sufficient, nutritious, nontoxic food, and that nobody is unduly harmed or burdened by how we grow our food. Every day at CFS we work towards this critical goal—through education and media, in courtrooms, and before state and federal agencies and legislatures across the country.