Connie Spence speaks out about our rigged food system, subsidies, and bailouts, and why we need a vegan lobby. She founded a vegan-backed lobbying group to represent vegans federally, to change how our taxes are used.

The Ag industry has rigged the system. In the eighties, ag lobbyists and politicians structurally changed the subsidy system from direct hand-outs to insurance and margin protection schemes. Why was this possible? Because no vegan lobby was around to stop it!

A Vegan Lobby

The lobbying arm, Agriculture Fairness Alliance, is the opposition force. Here’s the legislation that AFA is lobbying for today.

Learn about the main programs that deliver corporate ag welfare in VJL’s Subsidies 101 primer.

Or, listen to VJL Founder, Connie Spence discuss the rigged food system at a recent conference:

Connie Spence spoke at the Vegucation fair in Glendora California in 2019. Hear what she had to say about the rigged food system and how we can come together to unrig it.

How do Vegan Justice League (VJL) and Agriculture Fairness Alliance (AFA) differ?

When 10% of US Vegans are Pooling $10 per month, we will outmatch Bit Animal Ag in DC

Vegan Justice League focuses on education. AFA is a charity that has elected to lobby for the majority of its activities. In other words, VJL does not lobby, AFA does. VJL conducts research and educates the public on the injustice of animal ag subsidies. AFA partners with lobbyists like DC-based Lobbyists4Good to push legislation to help animal farmers transition, end animal ag subsidies, and ultimately reduce animal ag’s impact on the environment, the animals, and humanity.

Animal Agribusinesses Pay $18 Million a Year to Manipulate Farm Policy.

Animal Ag lobbyists represent the destructive interests of the National Pork Producers Council, Land O’Lakes, Tyson Foods, & dozens of other animal ag giants because … money.

$18 Million. That’s how much corporate animal agribusinesses paid lobbyists in 2018 to bend farm policy to their clients’ advantage. As a result, the farm bill ensures animal farmers profit regardless of how we Americans vote with our dollars.

Read more at veganjusticeleague.com