The Cornucopia Institute is a national food and farm policy 501(c)(3) non-profit watchdog group with the stated goal of upholding the integrity of organic, local, and other forms of alternative agriculture.
[citation needed] Cornucopia has exposed factory-farming conditions at organic egg production facilities confining tens of thousands of hens per building with inadequate outdoor access,[1] and at organic dairies, where thousands of cows have no access to pasture in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO).
[2] Their ongoing “flyover project” has resulted in high-resolution aerial photography of unethical organic livestock facilities across the country.
[13] The Cornucopia Institute also takes legal action on organic integrity issues, for instance having filed complaint against Dean Foods (White Wave), based on the use of the term organic.
In 2016, Cornucopia filed suit against the USDA alleging that agribusiness personnel were improperly appointed to seats reserved for organic farmers on the National Organic Standards Board.