Multi-billion-dollar meat corporations have built a food system around extreme overcrowding and confinement and they shouldn't get to stick farmers or families with the bill for fixing it.

In Oklahoma, pregnant pigs can spend weeks confined inside gestation crates: metal cages so small the animals cannot even turn around. This isn't some isolated practice on a handful of farms. It's part of the corporate-controlled system that produces the overwhelming majority of the meat and dairy available in our grocery stores, restaurants, and schools.

Companies like Smithfield, JBS, Tyson, Cargill, and Seaboard have enormous power over how our food is produced. For decades, corporations have consolidated the market, dictated practices to farmers, and profited from an industrial system built around producing more, faster and cheaper.

Meanwhile, farmers are too often left holding the bag. That needs to change.

If these multi-billion-dollar corporations created and profit from this system, they should pay to fix it.

We're calling on America's largest meat corporations to fund the transition away from extreme confinement and squalor without forcing independent and contract farmers to shoulder the cost.

It’s time for Big Ag billionaires to stop making contract farmers responsible for the problems that corporate boardrooms created in the first place. Sign the pledge to tell multi-billion-dollars corporations that it is time for them, and them alone, to foot the bill to fix the squalor-filled mess they created.