On this episode, I will be speaking about a topic that is crucial to the fight against factory farms, i.e., zoning. My guest is Holly Bainbridge, an attorney with FarmSTAND, a legal advocacy organization dedicated solely to taking on industrial animal agriculture. She will be telling us about Daley Farm v. County of Winona, which involves an already huge Minnesota dairy that is trying, in spite of zoning laws that would ostensibly prohibit it from doing so, to turn itself into a super mega-dairy. It turns out that some of the people in the small community where it’s located are really not ok with this for a whole host of reasons, believe that their zoning laws exist for very good reasons, and are fighting back.
Holly Bainbridge is a Staff Attorney with FarmSTAND, where she litigates cases to increase transparency in the food system and challenge industrial agricultural practices that harm people, animals, and the environment. Prior to joining FarmSTAND, Holly was a litigator at Animal Legal Defense Fund, where she focused on improving government oversight of industrial animal agriculture.
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