SIGN NOW: Tell the EPA to regulate factory farms that are hurting our environment and threatening our health!

Factory farms keep animals in overcrowded, dirty, and inhumane conditions, which is not only cruel and abusive but creates a dangerously ideal breeding ground for disease. Experts are saying that the next pandemic could emerge from these harmful facilities.

The risk that factory farms could spark future disease outbreaks and even pandemics are not the only risks they pose to our health. The toxic waste released by factory farms can contain dangerous pathogens and bacteria that end up in the water we drink and the air we breathe. And these massive operations emit large amounts of dangerous greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, exacerbating the climate crisis.

We must urge the EPA to exercise its federal oversight authority to regulate these climate-harming factory farms that engage in unsafe, abusive, and environmentally destructive practices.

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Dear Administrator Regan,

I am writing to urge EPA to federally regulate climate-harming factory farms that engage in unsafe and environmentally destructive practices. Factory farming is a leading driver of the climate crisis, harms local communities, and could lead to future disease outbreaks and pandemics.

The vast majority of the roughly 10 billion farm animals slaughtered for food each year in the U.S are raised in confinement in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) or factory farms. These heavily polluting facilities threaten rural economies, public health, and quality of life for the communities in which they are located, which are disproportionately communities of color and low-wealth communities. Industrial animal agriculture operations are also a major driver of the climate crisis, accounting for 36% of U.S. methane emissions.

Despite ample science demonstrating the major role industrial animal agriculture plays in contributing to climate change, water pollution, air pollution, and adverse impacts on public health, the industry has largely been able to avoid even basic federal oversight.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a duty and the authority to protect the health and well-being of our communities and the environment by enforcing federal environmental protection laws like the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, but it has so far neglected to do so for industrial animal agriculture.

EPA’s failure to protect communities from climate warming and toxic air and water pollutants generated by factory farms undermines the agency’s stated commitment to science, as well as to justice and equity.

If the EPA is serious about its commitment to advancing principles of equity and environmental justice as well as protecting public health, it must immediately exercise its oversight authority over the corporate-controlled industrial animal agriculture sector.

Thank you,
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