New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is calling for a moratorium on new livestock farms. Booker is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and was a speaker at the Food Not Feed Conference in Washington, D.C., highlighting his bill to phase-out new large livestock farms by 2040. The activist group, Farm Action, hosted the conference. A variety of environmental groups and animal rights activists were also on the agenda. That includes Environmental Working Group Senior Vice President Scott Faber who said farm programs are out of balance. Faber said the government pays too much “to support farmers who produce feed for farm animals and too little to support farmers who produce food for humans.”
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