Center for Food Safety

10/14/2026

“Sustainable” seafood should live up to its label. 🐟

For generations, communities in Downeast Maine have depended on clean waters and wild fish. This video highlights what’s at stake as industrial salmon farming corporations like Cooke Aquaculture threaten those waters, local fisheries, and the livelihoods connected to them.

Cooke is also a major supplier of Hannaford’s farmed salmon, which the grocery chain aggressively markets as sustainable.

Today, we announced a lawsuit alongside FarmSTAND and our legal partners challenging Hannaford and its parent company’s allegedly deceptive marketing.

The complaint details pollution, harmful chemical use, and mass fish deaths linked to the industrial farms supplying its salmon.

Shoppers deserve honest information. Fishing communities deserve clean water. And “sustainable” should mean more than a marketing claim.

💬 Comment OCEAN below to join us in protecting our oceans from factory fish farms. 👇

Video credit: Emma Baiada, Severine von Tscharner, Scott Sell, and Taylor Griffith.

10/14/2026

10/13/2026

What’s left out of the “sustainably farmed” seafood story?

More than half of the seafood eaten worldwide now comes from aquaculture. But an investigation by Inside Climate News and The Outlaw Ocean Project reveals the costs behind industrial fish farming, from depleted wild fish populations and polluted waters to forced labor and harm to coastal communities.

Center for Food Safety is the leading legal organization fighting industrial aquaculture, and we’ve won every case we’ve filed challenging it.

📢 Comment OCEAN below to protect our oceans from factory fish farms! 👇

🎥 Video: Inside Climate News
Reporting: Inside Climate News + The Outlaw Ocean Project

10/13/2026

Farmed seafood is often marketed as a sustainable solution to overfishing. But what happens along the way to our plates?

A new investigation by Ian Urbina for The New York Times, reported by The Outlaw Ocean Project, follows the industrial aquaculture supply chain and exposes costs that sustainability claims too often leave out.

The reporting documents destructive and illegal fishing, forced labor and deadly working conditions, pollution from fishmeal factories, and coastal communities losing fish they depend on for food and livelihoods.

At the farms themselves, waste can smother marine life, crowded conditions fuel disease and parasites, and chemicals used in production raise environmental and food safety concerns. By the time seafood reaches stores and restaurants, those harms are largely invisible to consumers.

Our oceans deserve better than an industry that puts marine life, workers, and coastal communities at risk.

Swipe for highlights and read the full investigation, “The Dirty Secret Behind the Farmed Fish You Eat.”

Reporting: Ian Urbina / The Outlaw Ocean Project
Graphics / video: The New York Times

10/06/2026

The Endangered Species Act, one of our nation’s strongest environmental laws, is being dismantled piece by piece. 🚨

Rule updates and agency directives threaten to fundamentally alter how the ESA is interpreted. Changes to the definitions of “harm” and “take” could weaken protections against habitat destruction and other actions that kill or injure threatened and endangered wildlife. 🦋❤️‍🩹

Will you join us in calling on Congress to defend the Endangered Species Act and protect the wildlife that depends on it? 👇

https://nation.centerforfoodsafety.org/esa-monarchs-oct26?utm_campaign=alert_esamonarchs_oct26_eng2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cfs

10/06/2026

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

Now, the Trump administration is working to weaken this critical law as wildlife faces mounting threats from industrial agriculture, toxic pesticides, and habitat destruction.

Monarch butterflies and other vulnerable pollinators need stronger protections. Weakening the law puts their habitats and food sources at even greater risk.

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

Send a message to Congress demanding that they defend the Endangered Species Act: https://nation.centerforfoodsafety.org/esa-monarchs-oct26?utm_campaign=alert_esamonarchs_oct26_eng2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cfs

10/05/2026

What happens when pollution from industrial agriculture makes its way into the water people drink?

In Part 2, More Perfect Union looks at Iowa’s water quality crisis, the expansion of industrial livestock operations, and growing concerns about the potential health impacts of agricultural pollution.

Research scientist Chris Jones argues Iowa needs a fundamental shift in how the state regulates agriculture and protects its water.

🎥 Video via More Perfect Union

10/05/2026

Iowa has the second-highest and fastest-growing rate of new cancers in the country, raising urgent questions about what’s driving the trend.

In a state dominated by industrial agriculture, researchers are examining the role agricultural pollution, including pesticides, nitrates, and contaminated drinking water, may play in the cancer crisis.

Research scientist Chris Jones has spent years sounding the alarm about Iowa’s water quality. Now, he’s running for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture.

Watch both Part 1 and Part 2 to learn more.

🎥 Video via More Perfect Union

10/05/2026

“Inert” doesn’t mean harmless.

New research from Silent Spring Institute identified 485 chemicals used in U.S. pesticide products with evidence linking them to breast cancer concerns, according to The Guardian.

The findings include hundreds of so-called “inert” ingredients. These help pesticide products work, but the label doesn’t mean they’re safe for our health.

Breast cancer prevention must include reducing harmful chemical exposures. We need stronger pesticide protections and greater transparency about what’s in the products used on our food and in our communities.

Read the full reporting from The Guardian US // Sign up for our email alerts for updates on CFS’s pesticide work and beyond.

09/30/2026

California just took a new step on ultra-processed foods. 👀

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of AB 2244 into law creates the first state-backed, voluntary label for non-UPF qualifying products, amid a pending federal UPF definition.

Food companies will be able to seek “Non-Ultraprocessed Certified” status for products that meet the state’s criteria. The program is voluntary, and it will take time to put in place.