Get involved

Factory farming, with its mega hog barns, giant feedlots, fish farms, and battery chicken operations is harmful to family farmers, workers, the environment, animals, rural communities, and food quality. People across Canada are fighting to defend their food and their communities and to build positive alternatives to industrial livestock production. There are many ways you can get involved.

What you can do

Get organized
If your community is faced with a factory farm, use the GRACE Guide to Confronting a CAFO to help you get organized, get informed and become effective in protecting your community. You can also get help from the BFF ILO Helpline.
Communicate
Join the Beyond Factory Farming List serve. Its a discussion and information sharing service for people concerned about factory farming in Canada, and about factory farming in other countries as it relates to the Canadian situation. To subscribe, send an email to: beyondfactoryfarming-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Join
Become a member of the Beyond Factory Farming coalition.
Eat well
Vote with your dollar. When you buy local, non-factory farmed products you support those farmers who are producing meat in a sustainable and socially responsible way. You help keep them in business and you build your local community economy. To find local sources of non-factory farmed meat, use the Eat Well Guide.
Educate
The Coalition and its members have a variety of publications - brochures, cards and leaflets - you can download and use to help build public awareness and bring about change.
Learn
How to be an Activist by Elizabeth May