Empowering Farmers: A Call to Reduce Agricultural Restrictions and Ensure Consumers Affordable Access
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service’s 2022 Household Food Security report sheds light on the persistent challenges faced by a significant portion of American households. As one navigates through the findings, it becomes evident that addressing food insecurity requires a multifaceted approach, with a crucial emphasis on greater empowerment of farmers and […]
Challenges to Canadian Agriculture Mirror Those in the U.S.
By Bruce Derksen for Protect The Harvest All over North America, those participating in agriculture, be it grain farming, livestock production, or another niche of the overall industry, consistently face significant challenges. Many originate from Mother Nature herself, in the form of extreme temperatures, droughts, floods, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, blizzards, or other climate […]
Protect The Harvest Rebrands for 2024; New Website, New Logo, New Tagline Reflect Organization’s 13-Year Evolution
Non-profit’s growth focused on food security, farmer and rancher freedoms, property rights, animal welfare Protect The Harvest, the 501(c)3, not-for-profit, educational and advocacy organization founded in 2011 by Forrest and Charlotte Lucas, has a new look for 2024 with an updated logo, new tagline – A Free and Fed America™ and revamped website. “In 2022 […]
Animal Rights And Climate Change Extremists Collude To Promote Globalist Plant Based Treaty Restricting Food Options And Consumer Freedom Of Choice
By Jaclyn De Candio for Protect The Harvest The call to negotiate a global “Plant Based Treaty” is putting animal agriculture in the crosshairs of environmental and animal extremist NGOs. This radical document, a sister initiative to the Climate Save Movement, calls for individuals, organizations, businesses, and cities to endorse three demands with the goal […]
Friend of the Land – December 2023
In Memory and Honor: Tammy Pate Recognized as December Friend of the Land It is with heavy hearts and profound sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Tammy Pate, the visionary founder of Art of the Cowgirl. Tammy’s courageous battle with cancer sadly ended on December 21, 2023, leaving behind a void that can never […]
Animal Rights Challenge to Iowa “Ag Gag Law” Fails in Eighth Circuit
By John M. Simpson, Duane Morris Law On January 8, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit rejected a constitutional challenge brought by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and other groups to an Iowa statute that prohibits “agricultural facility fraud.” Animal Legal Defense Fund […]
Italy Pioneers Ban on Lab-Grown Meat
Italy recently made history by becoming the first European Union nation to officially ban the production and sale of lab-grown or cultivated meat, sparking a global debate about the intersection of tradition, innovation and the future of food. The legislation, enacted in November 2023, restricts the cultivation of meat in laboratory bioreactors and places limitations […]
C40 Cities: What is this organization and why should you be terrified of its “Green” Globalist Agenda
C40 Cities is a coalition of billionaires, non-government organizations (NGOs), foundations, banks, governments, and businesses collaborating on: • Raising Climate Ambition; • Influencing the Global Agenda; • Building a Movement and; • Scaling Up Climate Action. Approximately 100 cities around the world have climbed aboard the C40 Cities bandwagon, including numerous U.S. cities led mostly […]
Secret Biden Administration Deals are Being Made to Remove Large Dams in the Pacific Northwest to Increase Salmon Numbers
For more than half-a-century, four Lower Snake River dams in southeastern Washington State have been a source of renewable hydroelectric power and, more recently, controversy and litigation. Environmental extremist groups and some Native American tribal entities claim the dams’ effect on wild salmon migration merits the removal or breaching of the dams for the purposes […]
Nonhuman Rights Project Loses Another Habeas Case for Elephants
From Duane Morris Law As we have reported previously (here, here, here, here), an animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) has a history of filing fruitless cases to establish that animals should have the same basic rights as people. NhRP has used the common law and statutory writ of habeas corpus in […]
