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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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The Farm Bill has a BIG impact on our food system - but it’s also surrounded by some big misconceptions. 👀From who benef...
08/29/2026

The Farm Bill has a BIG impact on our food system - but it’s also surrounded by some big misconceptions. 👀

From who benefits from federal farm programs to the role of conservation, the policies tucked into this massive piece of legislation help determine what kind of agriculture our tax dollars support — and who and what gets protected along the way.

That’s why understanding the Farm Bill matters. Food policy is environmental policy. It’s economic policy. It’s public health policy. And the decisions being made now could shape our food system for years to come.

This , we’re separating myth from fact. 🌱

08/28/2026

Reading a food label shouldn’t require a chemistry degree. 🧪
Comment UPF below to help us secure clear warning labels 👇

Ultra-processed foods are often filled with added colors, flavors, sweeteners, emulsifiers, and other ingredients rarely found in a home kitchen. Yet companies aren’t required to clearly warn consumers about the health risks associated with these products.

The Childhood Diabetes Reduction Act would require warning labels on ultra-processed foods and beverages, sugary drinks, products containing non-sugar sweeteners, and foods high in added sugar, saturated fat, or sodium.

The bill has already cleared its first Senate hurdle. Comment “UPF” and we’ll send you a quick action to tell your Senators to vote YES.

👀 The warning label that’s missing from your groceries.. Urge your Senator to act on ultra-processed food labels! Ultra-...
08/27/2026

👀 The warning label that’s missing from your groceries.. Urge your Senator to act on ultra-processed food labels!

Ultra-processed foods containing added colors, flavors, sweeteners, emulsifiers, and other industrial ingredients fill grocery store shelves—often wrapped in eye-catching packaging and marketed directly to children.

Yet companies like Coca-Cola and Frito-Lay aren’t required to warn consumers that these products have been linked to increased risks of diabetes, heart disease, and other serious health problems.

The Childhood Diabetes Reduction Act of 2026 (S. 5026) would help change that by requiring clear warning labels on ultra-processed foods and beverages, sugar-sweetened beverages, products containing non-sugar sweeteners, and foods high in added sugar, saturated fat, or sodium.

It would also expand federal nutrition research and education and restore the FTC’s authority to limit junk-food marketing to children.

Similar warning-label policies in countries including Chile and Mexico have contributed to fewer purchases of certain processed foods and pushed companies to reformulate their products. People in the United States deserve the same right to know.

The bill has cleared its first Senate hurdle with bipartisan support. Now, we need your Senators to help move it forward.

Take action to tell your Senators to vote YES on the Childhood Diabetes Reduction Act ‼️

https://nation.centerforfoodsafety.org/upf-labels-aug26?utm_campaign=alert_upflabelsaug26_eng2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cfs&mcp_token=eyJwaWQiOjI0MTMyMDcsInNpZCI6MTUxNTgyODg4NywiYXgiOiJmOTYxZDVhYWFmNjU3NDE1ZjM0ZTkzZWU0YmQxMTMxNSIsInRzIjoxNzg3ODY5Nzk3LCJleHAiOjE3OTAyODg5OTd9.OlzdAImidFlVo4CEtMoX5iE5Ugjo34bcUowQtDfh17g

The Colorado River is reaching a breaking point. Federal officials have cut the amount of water Arizona, California, and...
08/25/2026

The Colorado River is reaching a breaking point. Federal officials have cut the amount of water Arizona, California, and Nevada can draw from the river over the next two years as climate change, prolonged drought, and chronic overuse push the system toward collapse.

But temporary cuts cannot resolve the deeper problem: Communities and farms continue to demand more water than the shrinking river can sustainably provide.

Agriculture uses the majority of the Colorado River’s water. According to The New York Times, nearly half goes toward crops grown for animal feed, such as alfalfa.

As climate change intensifies drought and threatens the water supply for 40 million people, 5.5 million acres of farmland, and approximately two dozen Tribal Nations, we must confront how industrial agriculture allocates and consumes our shared resources.

A resilient food system should conserve water, protect ecosystems, respect Tribal water rights, and prioritize nourishing communities - not continue extracting from a river that can no longer sustain the demands placed upon it.

Source: The New York Times - “U.S. Cuts Colorado River Water for Arizona, California and Nevada”

What happens in a cotton field doesn’t stay there. 💨🌱The EPA is considering expanded uses of two herbicides, topramezone...
08/25/2026

What happens in a cotton field doesn’t stay there. 💨🌱

The EPA is considering expanded uses of two herbicides, topramezone and isoxaflutole, on genetically engineered cotton designed to survive these chemicals.

It’s another potential turn of the pesticide treadmill: crops are engineered to tolerate herbicides, weeds develop resistance and additional chemicals are introduced - all while farmers, nearby communities, wildlife and waterways bear the consequences.

Center for Food Safety is watching. Our scientists and attorneys dig into pesticide proposals, challenge flawed risk assessments and hold federal agencies accountable when they fail to protect people and the environment.

Support the fight 📢 Comment JOIN to stand with CFS!

It’s 🌱Last week, we had shared that the Senate Farm Bill failed to advance by a single vote. So, what happened?Swipe 👈...
08/21/2026

It’s 🌱

Last week, we had shared that the Senate Farm Bill failed to advance by a single vote. So, what happened?

Swipe 👈 to learn more.

USDA just deregulated a genetically engineered corn designed to withstand multiple herbicides. 💨🌽Monsanto’s MON 87429 co...
08/21/2026

USDA just deregulated a genetically engineered corn designed to withstand multiple herbicides. 💨🌽

Monsanto’s MON 87429 corn is engineered for resistance to dicamba, glufosinate, quizalofop, 2,4-D, and at certain growth stages, glyphosate.

On August 4, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service determined the corn is unlikely to pose a greater plant-pest risk than conventional corn, clearing it from regulation under the agency’s biotechnology rules.

🤔 Why are we continuing to build a food system around crops engineered to withstand more chemical weedkillers?

We need agricultural systems that reduce our dependence on toxic pesticides - not crops designed around them. 🚫

Factory farms don’t belong in our oceans. 🐟 Tell your Rep to oppose MARA Act! https://nation.centerforfoodsafety.org/mar...
08/19/2026

Factory farms don’t belong in our oceans. 🐟 Tell your Rep to oppose MARA Act!

https://nation.centerforfoodsafety.org/mara-aug26?utm_campaign=alert_maraaquacultureaug26_2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cfs

The Marine Aquaculture Research for America Act (MARA) could fast-track commercial-scale industrial fish farms in U.S. waters by removing important regulatory steps designed to protect our oceans.

Open-ocean aquaculture can release animal waste, chemicals, antibiotics, and excess feed into surrounding waters, while escaped fish can spread disease and compete with wild populations.

We’ve fought for years to protect our oceans, marine life, wild fisheries, and coastal communities from the harms of industrial aquaculture. Now we need Congress to protect that progress.

Message your Rep to oppose MARA!

https://nation.centerforfoodsafety.org/mara-aug26?utm_campaign=alert_maraaquacultureaug26_2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cfs

The Iowa skipper is disappearing. 🦋📉 And its decline is a warning sign of something much bigger.Once common across Midwe...
08/17/2026

The Iowa skipper is disappearing. 🦋📉 And its decline is a warning sign of something much bigger.

Once common across Midwestern prairies, this small butterfly is losing the native grasslands and pollinator habitat it depends on as industrial agriculture drives habitat destruction, pesticide contamination, and biodiversity loss.

The Iowa skipper is a canary in the coal mine.

When species like the skipper vanish, it isn’t an isolated tragedy. It’s evidence that the ecosystems that sustain pollinators, clean water, native habitat, and ultimately our food system, are being pushed to the brink. 🚨

That’s why Center for Food Safety is going to court. 📢

When we fight for the Iowa skipper, we’re fighting for far more than one butterfly. We’re fighting for biodiversity, healthy ecosystems, the Endangered Species Act, and the future of food.

🦋 Comment SKIPPER 👇and we’ll send you the link to take action and demand protections for the Iowa skipper.

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