CULTIVATING
IN THE FOOD SYSTEM
Stray Dog Institute is a private operating foundation cultivating dignity, justice, and sustainability in the food system. We provide funding, strategic research, and opportunities for collaboration to build a compassionate world for people, animals, and the environment.
CULTIVATING
IN THE FOOD SYSTEM
Stray Dog Institute is a private operating foundation cultivating dignity, justice, and sustainability in the food system. We provide funding, strategic research, and opportunities for collaboration to build a compassionate world for people, animals, and the environment.
Funder collaboratives can help funding dollars to go further, be better targeted, and tackle more complex problems. In this post, we explore the motivations driving collaboration between funders in the food systems space and the challenges that collaboratives must overcome.
There is fertile common ground between climate activism and food systems activism. It is now critical for both climate campaigns and food system transformation efforts to defund industrial meat.
In this post, we highlight Switch4Good, an organization taking a unique perspective on dietary change advocacy. Their approach is based on a broad, intersectional understanding of the serious and interconnected problems dairy creates: for the animals it exploits, for the public whose health it harms, for specific groups within society whose interests it systematically ignores.
We must transform food systems at global and local levels to reduce GHG emissions, improve ecosystem health, respect animal welfare, and re-balance rural economies. In this post, we explore specific strategies for bringing about a new agricultural paradigm.
Industrial agriculture is threatening its own future, and ours along with it. Sustainable plant-based food production can become a way of healing our earth, our communities, and our health.
Worldwide, roughly 70 billion animals are raised and slaughtered each year within the food system. Producing so many animals comes with a high price for us, for animals, and for our planet. These costs make the UN Sustainable Development Goals much harder to achieve.
The rise of industrial agriculture has built agribusiness empires while endangering human, animal and environmental health. To bring the SDGs within reach, we must confront the challenge of achieving a sustainable food future.
Our current industrial food system is a primary driver behind many of the underlying problems described by the SDGs. To achieve the SDGs, we must transform food production and food consumption into forces that strengthen, rather than weaken, global progress toward sustainable development.
It’s no secret that livestock raised intensively for food production in many high-income nations endure a tremendous amount of unnecessary suffering. Bucolic imagery on food packages and food advertising shows chickens, cows, and pigs that appear well cared for and comfortable, living out their lives in freedom on green pastures.
To cultivate dignity, justice, and sustainability in the food system, Stray Dog Institute provides nonprofit allies with funding, strategic research, and opportunities for collaboration. Together, we hope to build a more compassionate world for people, animals, and the environment.
