Friends,

Back in 2001, Michele Merkel worked for the EPA.

One of her first cases was with farmers who were suing mega-hog factory farms for polluting the community’s air and water. When the EPA sided with the giant corporations, she quit.

Now Michele works at Food & Water Watch, fighting for laws and legislation that force our government and the EPA to protect your water, air and food from factory farms — as they are mandated to do.

Check out Michele’s TEDx Talk to hear her story and how you can fight with Michele against factory farms.

Michele’s story shows how factory farms have too much power.

That’s why we are calling for a ban on factory farms.¹

Factory farms place our health and food supply at risk, pollute the environment and our drinking water, and wreck rural communities — while increasing corporate control over our food.

But we can reverse this trend. Watch the video, then start a monthly gift to help ban factory farms.

Watch the video

The list of factory farm abuses is long. Factory farms:

Contaminate our air and water
Put our food supply at risk
Push family farms out of business
Abuse antibiotics and treat animals terribly
Increase the corporate control of our food system

For all these reasons we must ban new factory farms. You can help by starting your monthly donation right now.

Food & Water Watch is helping to build a movement calling for a ban on new factory farms. We know that this won’t be easy — but just like when we were the first national organization to call for a ban on fracking, we know that it’s the logical solution to the problem we face.

Watch Michele’s TEDx talk to hear more about our fight against factory farms, and then join the fight with a monthly gift.

Onward together,

Wenonah Hauter
Executive Director
Food & Water Watch

1. Ban Factory Farms, Food & Water Watch.

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On August 12, white supremacists will be showing up in our nation’s capital for a Charlottesville sequel– but thanks to our Blood Money campaign, they’re flailing for funding.¹

Jason Kessler, the organizer of the “Unite the Right” rally last year in Charlottesville, has recently been kicked off of PayPal. He’s literally stuck asking people to send him checks and cash in the mail to fund his rally.²

We’ve left Kessler waiting for money by snail mail. But companies like Amazon and Discover are still allowing hate groups to use their platforms, which is undoubtedly helping violent groups like the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer to organize an armed rally in Portland this weekend. Donate $4 to help us finish the fight to cut off funds to hate groups.

Our Blood Money campaign was going on behind the scenes for months before Charlottesville. Despite multiple meetings with us, many payment processors chose to ignore our warnings about the dangers of these hate groups. It took white supremacists showing up with tiki torches and murdering 32-year-old Heather Heyer to open their eyes.

Despite this, companies like Visa, Discover and American Express continue allowing groups like Patriot Prayer– who brag about showing up fully armed to public rallies— to process donations, and Amazon continues to sell racist propaganda for nearly a dozen hate groups on Kindle.^3,4

This has to end. Here are 3 parts of our Blood Money campaign you can donate to:

Send $4 to our campaigners to help them gather thousands of petition signatures and phone calls to send to the desks of CEOs of companies like Amazon and Discover.
Send $4 to our research team so they can expose corporations enabling hate groups through deep research into payment processors and who they serve.
Send $4 to our digital media team to help them run truth-exposing campaign ads to put payment processors’ image on the line, and pressure them to end their support of the far right.

When Heather Heyer was murdered, Jason Kessler celebrated her death, tweeting that Heyer was a “fat disgusting Communist” and her death was “payback time”.⁵ The people behind these organizations are willing to kill Black people, Jewish people, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ folks, and even just someone they deem “too left.”

Let’s make sure they don’t have one penny left to fund their hate. Invest $4 in our work to cut off funds to these dangerous organizations once and for all.

Until justice is real,

–Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Jade, Evan, Johnny, Future, Corina, Chad, Mary, Saréya, Angela, Eesha, Samantha, Scott and the rest of the Color Of Change team

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