Field to Fork

The long term goal of Clean Water Action Minnesota’s Field to Fork: Sustainable Feed, Sustainable Food is to reshape this industrialized food system, in relation to livestock production, to implement policies that reflect sustainable practices in order to protect our natural resources including soil health, native landscapes, and clean water.

As the home to the headwaters of the Mississippi river, a top state for food production in the country, and corporate agriculture players in our backyard, Minnesota is an important player in re-shaping the state of our current food system dominated by corporate agriculture. The industry has put the majority of beef, poultry, and pork markets in the hands of only a few top corporate processors, all of whom are involved in polluting practices throughout their supply chains.

Clean Water Action, in collaboration with partners and interested individuals across the state, will work towards two major changes to achieving sustainable meat:

Change the Market:

Engage consumers to influence change from the bottom up by creating demand for more sustainably produced meat

Change Policy:

Push for reform on three important environmental issues within meat’s supply chain – feed souring, manure management, and climate change

Get involved:

Sign up here to volunteer!

The Problem with Corporate Industrial Agriculture and Minnesota’s Water

One of the greatest threats to the quality and health of Minnesota’s rivers, lakes, streams, and drinking water sources is excess chemicals, fertilizers, and sediment from irresponsible agricultural practices. There are many ways these pollutants enter our water, but runoff from single crop farmland and animal factory farms are some of the largest contributors to this problem.

Solutions for Industrial Corporate Agriculture Pollution in Minnesota’s Waters

One of the greatest threats to the quality and health of Minnesota’s rivers, lakes, streams, and drinking water sources comes in the form of excess chemicals, fertilizers, and sediment from irresponsible agricultural practices.

PFA Prevention Community Town Hall, St Cloud MN, January 20th

Minnesota PFAS Prevention Community Town Hall: St Cloud

Learn about what PFAS is and the health impacts linked to exposure, the threat it poses in biosolids/sludge when applied to agricultural land, and what the future for PFAS in agriculture looks like.

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Petition for Sustainable, Healthy, & Informed Grocery Shopping Options!

We all need to eat, and our collective choices in the food we purchase can make a big impact on the health of our environment - for bad and for good. Unfortunately, it's often difficult to find sustainable products on the shelf in the first place. Clean Water Action is asking Minnesota groceries to work with the Field to Fork program to improve the products they carry for sale.

Profiles In Prevention -- Wise Acre Eatery and Tangletown Gardens

Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund are recognizing the people and organizations who have made choices that have prevented pollution from entering our environment. Some actions are big, some are small, but all of them matter.

Minnesota Water Action Wednesday Series

Minnesota Water Action Wednesdays is a series virtual events discussing pressing issues and topics regarding protecting our Minnesota water resources, learning the background and history, where we currently stand, what the future holds, and how you can take action.

Field to Fork

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Clean Water Action, in collaboration with partners and interested individuals across the state, will work towards two major changes to achieving sustainable meat:

Change the Market:

Engage consumers to influence change from the bottom up by creating demand for more sustainably produced meat

Change Policy:

Push for reform on three important environmental issues within meat’s supply chain – feed souring, manure management, and climate change

Get involved:

Sign up here to volunteer!

The Problem with Corporate Industrial Agriculture and Minnesota’s Water

Solutions for Industrial Corporate Agriculture Pollution in Minnesota’s Waters

Minnesota PFAS Prevention Community Town Hall: St Cloud

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Clean Water Action, in collaboration with partners and interested individuals across the state, will work towards two major changes to achieving sustainable meat:

Change the Market:

Engage consumers to influence change from the bottom up by creating demand for more sustainably produced meat

Change Policy:

Push for reform on three important environmental issues within meat’s supply chain – feed souring, manure management, and climate change

Get involved:

Learn More

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Publications

News

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