Protecting our food and farm workers 

Our food system is broken. EWG wants to fix it. 

Food and farm workers live and work in conditions that expose them to pesticides and other toxic chemicals, dirty air, contaminated drinking water and inadequate healthcare. Exposure leaves them especially vulnerable to disease, and they have little to no protection from the coronavirus pandemic.  

Something has to change. EWG is seeking state and federal solutions that will lead to safer conditions, better pay and healthcare. 

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Farming & Agriculture

EWG works to find innovative ways to protect your health and environment while ensuring a sustainable future for America’s working farmers.
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Conservation

USDA's conservation programs are the single largest investment of federal taxpayer's dollars to encourage farmers to adopt practices that improve natural resources and the environment. 

Factory Farms

Large-scale agriculture isn’t just a nuisance, but a health threat to the people living nearby — disproportionately people of color and low-income communities. 

Farm Pollution

Conventional agriculture can pollute rivers, lakes and tap water with unsafe levels of toxic chemicals. EWG offers science-based information to learn more.
Money and grains

Subsidies

EWG’s Farm Subsidy Database reveals that taxpayers are mostly supporting big, rich farms, not sustainable family farms that truly need help. We’re working to change the broken system.

Toxic Algae

Lakes, reservoirs, rivers and streams are critical sources of drinking water. But they’re threatened by toxic algae blooms, fueled by polluted runoff from farms and made worse by climate change.