Climate Check May: Banning Mega-Dairies in New York

Our host, Audrey is joined by Alex Beauchamp, Northern Region Director at Food and Water Watch. Food & Water Watch fights for the safe and healthy food, clean water, and livable climate we all deserve.

In this episode, Alex talks about the proposed bill to ban mega-dairies in New York State. Alex brings us through the issues with mega-dairies, what the bill would do, and what it’s going to take to pass it.

Based in Michigan, Alex oversees all Food and Water Watch’s organizing work throughout the region with a particular focus on New York. Alex started as an organizer with Food & Water Watch 17 years ago and has served as the Region Director since 2012. He has led the New York team to victories in winning a statewide ban on fracking, a cryptocurrency mining moratorium, a landmark gas ban in New York City, and shutting down the Danskammer and Astoria NRG fracked gas power plants and defeated several fracked gas pipelines proposed throughout New York.

Resources:
Read the bill and track its progress: Senate Bill S6530
Tool to tell your legislator to support the bill
Food & Water Watch Website
Food & Water Watch Factory Farm Nation Report
Food & Water Watch Farm vs Factory Interactive Resource