While the environmental justice movement has gained traction in the United States, the relationship between agri-food systems and environmental injustices in rural areas has yet to come into focus. This Article explores the relationship between U.S. agricultural exceptionalism and rural environmental justice through examining right-to-farm laws. It demonstrates that the justification for these statutes, protecting farmers from nuisance suits, in practice transfers power from rural communities to industrial agriculture by safeguarding agribusiness interests and certain types of production from lawsuits and liability. It considers how the original impetus behind agricultural exceptionalism—to safeguard the food system through distributed and vibrant farms— can be reconciled with environmental justice by repealing right-to-farm laws.