Article excerpts:

“The activist playbook is predictable: file a frivolous lawsuit, challenge an effective agricultural rule or regulation, flood the case with money and cast farmers as villains. This strategy, designed to stifle American ag, threatens not only farmers but also our entire food supply. It’s up to those of us in the industry to push back. Producers know what’s best for their animals, their farms and the communities they serve.

Recently, pork producers won a crucial battle when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected an activist lawsuit that could have upended livestock regulations nationwide. The lawsuit, led by extremists at Food & Water Watch, the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, and the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, sought to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to require all concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to obtain federal Clean Water Act (CWA) permits or prove they weren’t discharging pollutants into waterways...”

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