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Agriculture Fairness Alliance is proud to have been able to kick-off our Farm Bill 2023 Priorities in-person in DC in August! It was an eye-opening trip and was so impactful to be able to represent Vegans for this Farm Bill Season. We feel that having our Board Members join our Lobbyists in-person gives us an ...

AFA’s First Champion: Jane!

note: this is an actor standing in for Jason who wishes to keep his mug anonymous.

Join the AFA Champion Club by pledging $200 per month. Pledge $200 per month as an AFA Champion 100% of champions club donations go directly to lobbying.  If $200 per month is too steep, we invite you to join AFA as a $10 per month member ( the membership group responsible for hiring AFA’s first lobbyist!) AFA is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. ...

If AFA gets the lobbyists they seek, they have a high chance of instigating a paradigm shift in the way subsidized Big Ag and Big Food have been operating without accountability. Please join me at the $200/month level. Thank you. – Niloofar Asgharian

A True Health Crisis Government spending to treat diet-related diseases like cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes, accounts for 54% of the $383.6 billion dollars in health care costs to treat these conditions. Think of the lives and dollars that could be saved if people had access to diets that prevent these diseases in the first place. ...

Fiber-rich Foods are Low-GHG By aiming farm policy to prioritize plant-based (i.e. fiber-rich) foods, the USDA could contribute hundreds of tons of CO2 eq to carbon drawdown efforts every year. (Of note, fiber is only found in plant-based foods.) AFA proposes the Farm and Ranch Mobility Solutions Act (FARMS) as climate-smart ag policy, here’s why: Potential for Carbon Drawdown in the ...

According to publicly available data, the US is severely undersupplying dietary fiber as a nutrient, so it’s no surprise that most Americans only eat half the daily recommended dietary fiber. In fact, over 90% of Americans are fiber deficient, a deficiency that is linked to the most common, deadly, and costly diseases we face. A new ...

US farm spending should make sense. Based on publicly available data, AFA estimates that only 8% of federal farm spending goes toward producing fiber-rich foods, even when federal nutritional guidelines urge us to fill 80% of our plates with these same foods. And only 3% of farm spending goes to producing fruits and veggies, even ...

In early 2021, AFA decided to analyze US federal agriculture subsidies for 2020. It was no small task as it required tracking down nonpublic data from siloed USDA agency websites. Not only was the data not uniform across agencies, sometimes the data simply weren’t there. For example, there was no published data showing how much federal ...