Take Action Today to Make Change
We're writing to ask for your help today in shaping sugar industry reform. This action will take three minutes.
Background: The US Senate's agriculture committee is looking for public input on the 2023 farm bill. The farm bill is a gigantic piece of legislation that comes up every five years. Buried inside it, shielded from public scrutiny, is a set of corrupt deals Big Sugar orchestrates to advance its interests. You can read about those deals on our website.
Our request: Make your voice heard by taking the following steps. The deadline is tomorrow, so please do this today. Thank you!
Visit the Senate Ag Committee's farm bill input form at this link.
Enter your contact information. Where it reads Farm Name, Organization, etc., type No Big Sugar Campaign.
Where it reads Your Input, paste the following, then click submit.
I urge the committee to end the sugar program in the farm bill for the following reasons:
Sugarcane burning causes pollution that can contribute to cancer, asthma and other respiratory diseases. People who in close proximity to sugarcane burning—largely Black, working-class communities—suffer some of the worst smoke pollution in the country.
The sugar program causes lasting environmental damage, including damage to the Everglades and toxic algae blooms along Florida's coastline.
Big Sugar is responsible for human rights abuse abroad, as illustrated by recent US Customs and Border Protection action to block imports from a Fanjul family-owned plantation in the Dominican Republic due to forced labor.
Big Sugar has contributed to the loss of tens of thousands of good jobs across the country. Meanwhile, American households and businesses pay nearly twice as much as households and businesses abroad for sugar, deepening the burden of inflation on American families.