National Actions

Show your support for making our food system fair for all:

Petition to Congress:

Dear Senator,

When the Senate considers the next Farm Bill, I urge you to defend progress made in the 2008 Farm Bill and to protect critical programs that we need to help farmers transition to organic production. Specifically, I urge you to:

Protect Country of Origin Labeling: Consumers started to get this basic information about their food just a few years ago. We need more information about where our food comes from, not less, and this Farm Bill should not weaken the current requirement for mandatory country of origin labeling for meat, poultry, fruits and vegetables, seafood and nuts.

Include a Packer Ban: Allowing meatpackers to own the animals they slaughter reduces competition for livestock raised by independent farmers and ranchers. A ban on the ownership of livestock by meatpackers would afford family farmers the opportunity to remain independent and retain control over their operations. I urge you to include S. 2141 in the Farm Bill.

Protect Organic Agriculture: The 2008 Farm Bill made progress on giving organic agriculture a fair share of support. In this Farm Bill, I urge you to protect the organic cost-share program, amend the AFRI program to require 5 percent of funding to go to the development of locally adapted, publicly available seeds and breeds, and to keep language from the last Farm Bill that would assure organic producers that they are not required to pay unfair surcharges to access crop insurance

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State Actions

Iowa
Tell Senators Harkin and Grassley to be initial co-sponsors to the Livestock Marketing Fairness Act.

Michigan
Urge Senator Stabenow to Fight for Funding for Critical Farm Bill Programs.

North Dakota
Tell Senators Conrad and Hoeven to support the federal Livestock Marketing Fairness Act.

Ohio
Send Senator Brown a message to protect Ohio’s family farmers!