Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT)

06/11/2026

Healthy pasture does more than grow grass; it creates a better food source for animals, healthier soil, and more resilient farms. 🌱🐄🐑

Fund-a-Farmer grants are helping farmers across the country invest in pasture improvement and silvopasture projects that give animals access to shade, diverse forage, and well-managed grazing systems.

Today, we're celebrating:
🐄 Wanda Farms (IL) — Converting 40 acres of highly erodible cropland into rotational grazing pasture with fencing and water access.
🌳 Finicky Farm (MA) — Establishing silvopasture to provide summer shade, nutritious tree fodder, and winter tree hay for livestock.
🌿 Goode Game Gardens (GA) — Creating a regenerative silvopasture and medicinal herb system to support animal health, nutrition, and soil vitality.
🐑 Missing Mountain Acres (MI) — Improving pasture quality through silvopasture, daily rotations, and winter bale grazing.
💧 The Daniel Farm (OR) — Installing water infrastructure to make rotational grazing and forage production possible.
🐐 The Herb Hill Farm & Micro-Dairy (MA) — Expanding well-managed pasture with a new silvopasture paddock for goats and poultry.
🐄 Wild Type Ranch (WI) — Using portable cattle handling facilities to support the transition of cropland into adaptively managed grazing.

🐄 Wild Type Ranch (WI) — Using portable cattle handling facilities to support the transition of cropland into adaptively managed grazing.

06/09/2026

In FACT's latest blog post, expert Steven Roach explains how factory farms rely on routine antibiotic use and why that matters for public health.

The timing couldn't be more important. This month, federal agencies are asking for public input on how to address antibiotic resistance, and we have an opportunity to push for stronger action.

📢 Read our latest blog to learn more about the connection between factory farming and antibiotic resistance.

✍️ Then take two quick actions to urge federal agencies to:
• Reduce unnecessary antibiotic use in food animals
• Improve transparency and data collection
• Protect these life-saving medicines for future generations

🔗 Read the blog and take action here: https://www.foodanimalconcernstrust.org/blog/help-us-continue-the-fight-against-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs

06/05/2026

Fund-a-Farmer grants support all kinds of farm projects, including improving care during the earliest and most vulnerable stages of an animal's life. From warmer brooders and safer farrowing spaces to protected lambing barns, these projects help young animals get the healthy start they deserve. 🌱🐾

Today, we're highlighting the 2026 Young Animal Care Improvement Projects. Read our full list of FAF projects here: https://www.foodanimalconcernstrust.org/resources/2026-funded-projects

1. Mollayo Farm in Port Townsend, WA, is expanding and modernizing its poultry brooder with a new shelter, automated watering, and safer, energy-efficient heating. These upgrades will provide more consistent care while increasing capacity for healthy chicks.

2. EcoGrazing Solutions in Bolton, CT, is purchasing a hoophouse barn for winter lambing and kidding. The shelter will improve the survivability, comfort, and welfare of newborn lambs and goat kids.

3. Marcinek Farms in Jonesville, FL, is building dual-purpose breeding and farrowing pens for its pasture- and forest-raised Berkshire hogs. The project will create safer conditions for sows and piglets, improving litter health and survivorship.

4. May's Menagerie in Hot Springs, NC, is expanding its poultry facilities to hatch and raise more chicks on pasture, giving young birds a healthy start while supporting future flock growth.

5. Songbird Hill Farm in Kankakee, IL, is upgrading its poultry brooder with automatic watering, radiant heating, and improved insulation. These improvements will reduce stress, disease risk, and mortality among young broiler chickens.

6. Willowbrook Farms in Cassopolis, MI, is investing in infrastructure to improve the early-life welfare of slow-growth, pasture-raised poultry, helping young birds get the healthiest possible start.

7. WonderPork in East Lynn, IL, is purchasing individual pasture-based farrowing huts. These shelters will allow sows to give birth with outdoor access, improving comfort and welfare for both mothers and piglets.

06/03/2026

does it again. He's a columnist with the who lives on a farm in Oregon and cares about farm animal welfare.

How refreshing! If only more journalists and newspapers would take up this call.

"Many Americans are ambivalent, not wanting animals to suffer unnecessarily yet also wanting inexpensive and tasty meat. The trade-offs are real, for the pork industry indeed excels at producing cheap sausage, but think of your dog enduring what pigs face, and you realize that the moral cost is incalculable."

FACT is committed to getting this message out to the public. Most food from animals comes from factories where the animals live in cruel and inhumane systems. There is an alternative to these factories.

Thousands of farmers raise their animals humanely, on pasture, regeneratively. We support this humane system by directly supporting farmers through financial assistance and educational programs.

You can support these farmers and eat healthy meat, dairy, and poultry by purchasing these products directly from independent farmers.

See the consumer section of our website to learn more: https://www.foodanimalconcernstrust.org/fact-consumer-resources

06/02/2026

Antibiotics are among the most important tools we have for treating serious infections. But the more they're overused, the less effective they become, and industrial agriculture is a major driver of that overuse.

Right now in the U.S., food animals receive roughly twice as many antibiotics as humans do. In crowded, stressful industrial systems where disease spreads easily, antibiotics are often given routinely, before animals are even sick.

That matters because antibiotic resistance is already contributing to more than 35,000 deaths each year in the United States.

In June, the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) will help shape the federal government's strategy on antibiotic resistance for the next five years. This is a critical opportunity to push for stronger protections.

FACT is urging PACCARB to:
• Prohibit antibiotic use in animals that are not sick
• End routine, continuous antibiotic use in food animals
• Set national antibiotic reduction targets
• Improve data collection and transparency around antibiotic use in agriculture

Protecting antibiotics means supporting farming systems that keep animals healthier in the first place.

📢 Add your voice and tell PACCARB to take meaningful action.
🔗 Link to take action: https://www.foodanimalconcernstrust.org/take-action

05/29/2026

This year, FACT awarded grants to farms across the country working to improve animal welfare through thoughtful, practical infrastructure. Each week we are showcasing a handful of these inspiring projects, and this week we are continuing onward with animal handling and loading projects.

🐐 Toluma Farms in California is adding a portable sheep and goat handling chute designed around natural animal behavior, reducing fear and physical strain during routine care.

🐄 Pearl River Pastures in Mississippi is purchasing portable corrals to improve low-stress cattle handling and rotational grazing management.

🐮North Plain Farm in Massachusetts is building a stress-reducing handling and recovery space for pregnancy checks, illness care, and shelter during colder weather.

🐑 MKONO Farm in Indiana is adding a mobile handling system for Navajo Churro sheep to support safer, low-stress movement through pasture and silvopasture systems.

These projects may seem simple, but they directly improve the daily lives of animals and the farmers who care for them.

05/29/2026

For generations, independent farmers helped build rural communities, steward the land, and feed their neighbors. But today, many are being pushed out by a food system increasingly controlled by a handful of massive corporations.

This powerful new piece from members of the FACE Ag Network explores what’s really at stake in the current Farm Bill debate, and why policies like the Save Our Bacon Act could further tilt the playing field against independent, pasture-based farmers.

These are the voices we need to be listening to: farmers living this reality every day.

Read the article from Common Dreams below. 👇

​America prides itself on supporting small and local businesses, yet decades of agricultural policy decisions signal nothing but disdain for our small and local farms.

05/26/2026

There's a better future for farming, and right now, we have a real chance to fight for it🐖💪

There are growing signs that the "Save Our Bacon" proposal may be left OUT of the Senate Farm Bill, proof that public pressure is working. 🎉

But we can't stop now.

If passed, "Save Our Bacon" would strip states of the right to set stronger animal welfare standards and make it harder to build a more humane, healthy, and democratic food system. It would protect industrial agriculture at the expense of independent farmers, rural communities, animals, and consumers who want better choices.

At FACT, we believe pasture-based farming is part of the solution. We believe farmers who are doing the right thing deserve support, rather than a system stacked against them.

📣 Senators are drafting the Farm Bill right now.

Take 2 minutes to send a message urging them to leave "Save Our Bacon" OUT of the final bill.

🔗 Action alert here: https://www.foodanimalconcernstrust.org/take-action

05/23/2026

A new article from Vox digs into the growing fight over the "Save Our Bacon" proposal in the Farm Bill that critics say would override state animal welfare laws and reward industrial agriculture at the expense of independent farmers.

The piece explores why a broad coalition of farmers, consumers, advocates, and lawmakers are speaking out against the proposal (including FACT!), and why the Senate Farm Bill negotiations happening right now matter so much.

There ARE encouraging signs that public pressure is working — reports suggest the Senate may leave "Save Our Bacon" out of its draft Farm Bill. But the fight isn't over yet and our community is keeping the pressure on.

📖 Read the article here: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/488637/pigs-gestation-crates-farm-bill-congress?utm_source=chatgpt.com