9 THINGS YOU CAN DO:
1) Buy from small, local farms and at local farmers markets. To find them, visit eatwellguide.org and localharvest.org. Or download the West Michigan Local Food Guide. Also, check out the Sweetwater Local Foods Marketin Muskegon, the state's first farmers market to exclusively sell local, humanely raised meat products.
3) Get out of the mindset that food should be really cheap. If you don't pay for its true cost up front, you pay later in the form of costs to the environment, animals, local economy and your health.
5) Ask your grocer to stock humane meat and dairy. Tell your favorite restaurant to use humanely raised food from local farmers. They really do listen to customers.
6) Educate yourself. This revolution's going nowhere without the participation of consumers like you! Visit the websites in our Resources section.
7) Join the effort to create a healthy local food system. Come up with your own ideas of how to create positive change. Farms Without Harm was started by one person who wanted to make a difference.
8) Support the organizations in the Resources section of this website. They're on the front lines fighting to rebuild the food system. They need your financial, in-kind and volunteer support.
9) Write a letter to the editor and your elected officials. The Farms Without Harm network exists in part to do simple yet powerful things like writing letters. We have more strength if we make noise together about something than if we squeak our wheels separately. If you’re not a Farms Without Harm member but happened on this site by accident, please take the time to send a note to your elected officials anyway, no matter where you live. Factory farms are a problem that crosses state as well as political and socio-economic boundaries.
If you eat, breathe, drink water or live on this planet, you should be concerned about factory farms. They are Equal Opportunity Offenders.