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Center for Food Safety works to protect our food, our farms, and our environment.

Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a national non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy organization working to protect human health and the environment by curbing the use of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture. CFS uses legal actions, groundbreaking scientific and policy reports, books and other educational materials, m

arket pressure and grass roots campaigns through our True Food Network. CFS's successful legal cases collectively represent a landmark body of case law on food and agricultural issues. Post Guidelines
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05/20/2026

For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has helped prevent the extinction of 99% of the species under its protection. 🦋

But today, wildlife faces mounting threats from industrial agriculture, toxic pesticides, and habitat destruction - while species can wait years, even decades, for federal protection.

Congress must act now to strengthen the ESA, protect science from political interference, and ensure endangered species get the protections they need before it’s too late. 🌱

From pollinators to birds to marine life, entire ecosystems are depending on it. 🐟

Comment PROTECT 👇to send a message to Congress demanding stronger protections for endangered species.

05/11/2026

A massive manure-to-energy project is being fast-tracked in Washington’s Yakima Valley - and frontline communities are sounding the alarm. 🚨 
Framed as a “climate solution,” this facility would actually lock in factory farming and increase pollution for nearby communities. 
That’s why the Center for Food Safety took action to challenge the project before construction could begin and calling out the risks to public health and the environment.   “This is a community that has historic and ongoing trauma from the impacts of industrial animal agriculture,” Kingsly McConnell, a resident of Yakima and staff attorney at the Center for Food Safety, tells Sentient.

He points to complaints of manure lagoons contaminating groundwater in the valley. “This biodigester risks further entrenching those factory farms in the harmful lagoon waste system in their community,” which could risk both their air quality and drinking water, he says. 
We’ve seen this before: corporate projects dressed up as sustainability, while communities pay the price.

Real solutions don’t come at the cost of people’s health.   ✊ Comment below to join CFS and Stand with frontline communities!

05/05/2026

🔦 While the red carpet gets the spotlight, a Supreme Court case could decide whether pesticide companies can be held liable for causing cancer.

At the center: Monsanto v. Durnell - a case that could strip away your ability to hold corporations accountable in court.

At the same time:
-EPA has allowed pesticides with known cancer risks onto the market without warning labels
-35% of pesticide ingredients approved in the last 40 years show possible or likely cancer risk
- Bayer spent $9.19 million lobbying in 2025 alone - while securing major policy wins
- Emails reveal a “small thanks” from Bayer as EPA decisions shifted in its favor
 This is corporate influence shaping public health.

At Center for Food Safety, we’re fighting in court and in policy to hold EPA accountable and protect your right to know what you’re exposed to.

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05/05/2026

Pro: I’m informed
Con: I’m informed

Swipe 👈 for another Environmental Meme Dump Monday 🌍

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05/05/2026

Emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show Bayer discussing legal strategy with the United States EPA - including plans to raise Supreme Court issues - while agency policy decisions were actively shifting in the company’s favor.

In this hearing, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confronted Lee Zeldin with those records.

She pointed to messages indicating Bayer would “bring up some legal/judicial issues” and even offer a “small thanks” tied to agency actions - while pressing on whether those conversations influenced EPA policy.

At the same time, the administration moved to boost glyphosate production and support legal protections that could shield Bayer from liability.

All while this issue heads toward the Supreme Court.

“Do you understand the conflict of interest that is before the American people right now?”

That’s the question.

📢 For decades, Center for Food Safety has taken the EPA to court to hold it accountable when decisions put corporate interests ahead of public health.

04/30/2026

Big update out of the House 👇

The pesticide liability shield has been removed from the Farm Bill.

This provision would have made it harder to hold pesticide companies accountable for harm - even when products are linked to serious health risks.

Today’s vote shows that pressure works. But we’re not done.

The Farm Bill still faces an uncertain path in the Senate, and the fight for real protections continues. ✊

04/29/2026

When a corporation thanks a federal agency for a policy change, we should all be paying attention.

Emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show Bayer discussing legal strategy with the United States EPA - including plans to raise Supreme Court issues - while agency policy decisions were actively shifting in the company’s favor.

In this hearing, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confronted Lee Zeldin with those records.

She pointed to messages indicating Bayer would “bring up some legal/judicial issues” and even offer a “small thanks” tied to agency actions - while pressing on whether those conversations influenced EPA policy.

At the same time, the administration moved to boost glyphosate production and support legal protections that could shield Bayer from liability.

All while this issue heads toward the Supreme Court.

“Do you understand the conflict of interest that is before the American people right now?”

That’s the question.

📢 For decades, Center for Food Safety has taken the EPA to court to hold it accountable when decisions put corporate interests ahead of public health.

04/29/2026

The EPA says no warning is needed. But the science - and the courts - tell a more complicated story.

Via -

‘Environmental groups argue the E.P.A.’s review process is deficient and routinely fails to require cancer warnings to protect the public. They note that a federal court vacated a health-risk assessment and pesticide-registration review conducted by the E.P.A. in 2020, calling the agency’s evaluation of glyphosate’s cancer risk flawed.

“E.P.A’s overall review is limited, leaving an important and robust role for states,” George A. Kimbrell, lead counsel for the Center for Food Safety, wrote in his brief.’

That role is now on the line. If companies don’t have to warn about cancer risks —and states can’t hold them accountable —
who protects the public?

For decades, Center for Food Safety has taken the EPA to court to hold it accountable when it fails to protect people and the environment - and that fight is far from over. ✊

04/29/2026

Pesticide companies are spending millions to avoid accountability. And the EPA isn’t protecting us. 🚨

That’s exactly what cases like Monsanto v. Durnell are about - whether corporations can avoid responsibility altogether, even when people are harmed.

Right now, pesticides the EPA itself classifies as “likely” or “possible” carcinogens are sitting on shelves across the country without adequate warning labels.

Over the past 40 years, the EPA has approved more than 200 pesticide ingredients linked to cancer - yet cancer warnings appear on just 1.4% of those labels.

No warnings.
No accountability.
No justice.

Some of these products carry cancer risks as high as 7 in 1,000 people who use them - 7,000x higher than the EPA’s own benchmark for acceptable risk.

Farmers, farmworkers, and rural communities are on the frontlines of this exposure every day. They deserve the truth.

That’s where we step in. Center for Food Safety has been holding the EPA accountable for years - and we’re not backing down.

Take action 📢 Tell EPA to require cancer warnings on all pesticides it has identified as carcinogenic - and cancel the most dangerous ones.👇

https://nation.centerforfoodsafety.org/pesticidecancer-mar26-s

Stand with us. The right to know is the right to live.

04/27/2026

What happens if the U.S. Supreme Court decides that pesticide companies never have to warn you about cancer risks?

Today in Washington, D.C., our Science Director Bill Freese spoke out at the People vs. Poison rally - and made one thing clear 👉 We cannot rely on the Environmental Protection Agency to protect public health.

Federal courts have already rejected EPA’s findings on glyphosate. Yet the agency continues approving pesticides linked to cancer - while labels stay silent.

No warnings. No accountability. No justice.

Farmworkers and rural communities are on the frontlines of this exposure every day. They deserve the truth.

This Supreme Court case could decide whether states can keep warning their residents about pesticide dangers - or whether corporations get immunity instead.

We’re fighting to make sure people, not poison, are protected.
✊ Stand with us. The right to know is the right to live.

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