As the year draws to a close, we’re excited to share some of our achievements from the past quarter, as well as new resources for communities impacted by industrial livestock production.

We approach 2025 optimistically, confident in the strength of community engagement, and sincerely grateful for your ongoing support. 

With best wishes for a happily holiday season,

The SRAP team

The second episode of Beak Capitalism, a podcast series by the Odd Lots team at Bloomberg, features Craig Watts, Susie Crutchfield, and Michael Diaz of SRAP’s Contract Grower Transition Program. They share their personal experience as contract growers, and highlight paths to more beneficial production systems. The episode also conveys comments from SRAP board member Austin Frerick on the economy-wide proliferation of harmful production practices that were pioneered and refined in industrial broiler production.

This SRAP webinar highlights the health and environmental threats bird flu poses to communities and workers. Panelists include experts in environmental and public health, labor advocacy, farmworker safety, and livestock production.

SRAP, Friends of the Earth, and Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability co-published A Brown Cloud Over the Golden State: How Dairy Digesters Are Driving CAFO Expansion and Environmental Injustice in California, and hosted a webinar to share key insights. The webinar and report explain how incentives for factory farm gas production in Tulare County, CA, exacerbate an ongoing environmental justice crisis, further compromising the air and water quality already taxing the well-being of the community’s vulnerable residents. View the webinar and read the report.

SRAP’s Legal Team and the Southern Environmental Law Center presented at the inaugural Southeastern Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of the South. The presentation highlighted the effects of CAFOs in the South, focusing on environmental impacts, community engagement, and the regulatory framework governing CAFOs.

SRAP’s GIS Mapping Portal is a one-stop mapping resource for communities facing industrial livestock operations. SRAP recently added a Minnesota state map to the portal to better support advocates. The map contains publicly available national and state-specific GIS data, allowing users to evaluate industrial livestock production’s impact and initiate protective actions. 

Lisa Anderson is a participant in SRAP’s Advocacy Course, which convenes individuals impacted by industrial livestock production to develop compelling narratives that combat prevailing industry commentary. Advocacy Course narratives share insight and inspire hope for communities facing industrial livestock operations. Read Lisa’s story and stay tuned for more advocate profiles and community stories.

For more than 20 years, SRAP has served as a mobilizing force to help communities protect themselves from the damages caused by industrial livestock operations and to advocate for a food system built on regenerative practices, justice, democracy, and resilience.