Healthy Food,
Safer Farming, Fewer Chemicals
We Need Healthier Food
Americans across the country and across the political spectrum are increasingly raising their voices to demand policies that support our health.
Chronic disease is on the rise, with 6 in 10 Americans now living with at least one chronic illness. A major cause of this is our food system, from the way we grow food to the way we process, package, and consume it. We urgently need to reduce and reverse chronic disease by promoting healthier diets, reducing exposure to toxic chemicals like pesticides in our food and environment, supporting regenerative and organic farming, and curbing the influence of chemical corporations and Big Ag over our food system. Our elected leaders must pass policies that:
Save family farms and make healthy food affordable
Break up monopolies, tackle corporate consolidation, and restore fair competition so that family farmers have real market options and consumers have access to affordable fresh produce and healthy food.
Shift to organic and regenerative agriculture
Provide the financial and technical assistance farmers need to transition away from chemical-intensive farming to organic and ecologically regenerative farming, including reforming federal crop subsidies and insurance.
Leverage federal procurement
Leverage federal procurement, including procurement for school meals, to support resilient local food systems and small-scale, organic, and regenerative farming.
Get toxic chemicals out of food, air, and water
Phase out the use of pesticides that are the most hazardous to human health and the environment. Protect people from exposure to PFAS “forever chemicals,” microplastics, and other pollutants in air and drinking water.
Curb industry influence over federal agencies
Reform the EPA’s pesticide review processes to close loopholes and ensure science-based decision-making. Tighten ethics standards at EPA, USDA, and FDA to close the revolving door between industry and government.
Agency Trackers
Bill Tracker
These are the bills that Members of Congress should support if they’re serious about healthy food, safer farming, and reducing our exposure to toxic chemicals.
S. 2324: Pesticide Injury Accountability Act
Sponsored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Pesticide companies are pushing for legal immunity – or a “liability shield” – in order to avoid responsibility for the harms caused by their toxic products, such as cancer. This bill would ensure that pesticide manufacturers can be held accountable and that pesticide injury victims, like farmers and gardeners, have a pathway to justice.
S. 269/H.R. 5085: Protect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticide Act
Sponsored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. James McGovern (D-MA)
This bill would comprehensively tackle pesticide use by phasing out highly hazardous pesticides; closing loopholes in the EPA’s pesticide approval process; and providing protections for farmworkers.
H.R. 9981: Ban Atrazine Toxicants Act
Sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
This bill would phase out the use of atrazine, a pesticide linked to cancer, hormone disruption, and reproductive harm that currently contaminates the drinking water of an estimated 40 million people.
H.R. 5196: Protect America’s Farmers and Families Act
Sponsored by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL)
This bill would phase out the use of the highly hazardous pesticide diquat dibromide. Diquat dibromide is one of the main ingredients in home and garden Roundup products.
S./H.R. 7601: No Immunity for Glyphosate Act
Sponsored by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)
This bill would effectively cancel Trump’s recent executive order on glyphosate, which is aimed at ramping up domestic production of the cancer-linked pesticide and providing legal immunity for glyphosate manufacturers.
S. 3427/H.R. 6593: Domestic Organic Investment Act
Sponsored by Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-OR)
This bill would support organic farming by making USDA’s Organic Market Development Grant (“OMDG”) program permanent, helping to meet rising demand for organic food. Organic food is grown without any synthetic fertilizers and without more than 900 pesticides otherwise allowed in farming. Organic food is also free of dozens of artificial food additives like dyes and more than 450 drugs otherwise allowed in livestock production, including all growth hormones and antibiotics. And organic farming has broad benefits for soil health, the climate, and biodiversity.
S. 1385/H.R. 5703: Organic Science & Research Investment Act
Sponsored by Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA)
This bill would expand organic research, with the goal of helping domestic organic farmers capitalize on growing consumer demand, stimulating local farm economies and reducing reliance on imported organic food.
S. 3471/H.R. 6706: EFFECTIVE Food Procurement Act
Sponsored by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC)
This bill would direct the USDA to prioritize food procurement that supports independent family farms, sustainability, and animal welfare, boosting local farm economies and increasing access to healthy food.
S. 2338: Strengthening Local Food Security Act and H.R. 4782: Local Farmers Feeding Our Communities Act
Sponsored by Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) and Rep. Robert Bresnahan (R-PA)
These bills would use federal purchasing power to expand access to fresh, locally-sourced food in schools and underserved communities while creating new markets for farmers.
S. 5084: Safe School Meals Act
Sponsored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
This bill would address the presence of heavy metals, pesticides, PFAS, and certain food additives that threaten children’s health and development in school meals, while ensuring that all children have access to safe, healthy, and non-toxic school meals.
S. 2421: Insuring Fairness for Family Farmers Act
Sponsored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
This bill would reform crop insurance commissions so that agents are fairly compensated for serving small and specialty crop farms, increasing access to crop insurance for farmers who produce some of our healthiest food.
H.R. 2435: Save Our Small Farms Act
Sponsored by Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT)
This bill would strengthen the farm safety net for small and diversified farmers who lack access to traditional crop insurance.
H.R. 4133: EQIP Improvement Act
Sponsored by Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT)
This bill would reform the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (“EQIP”) to better serve farmers and the environment by lowering payment limits to prevent large producers from monopolizing funds and reducing cost-share for less effective practices, so smaller farms and high-impact conservation practices can access support.
S. 1848/H.R. 3516: Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act
Sponsored by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)
This bill would restore transparency and accountability to USDA’s billion-dollar checkoff programs, ensuring they work efficiently for farmers and ranchers.
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