Essays & Analysis Archive
This is an archive of Stray Dog Institute’s blog posts published between 2021-2023. Authored by Stray Dog Institute and, at times, guest authors, these essays articulate Stray Dog Institute’s perspectives on key issues shaping food system transformation and farmed animal advocacy.
Since 2024, our research has focused on larger, movement-serving projects such as the State of the Movement. We continue to share this earlier work because it offers context, insights, and analysis that remain relevant to ongoing conversations about food systems transformation, animal advocacy, philanthropy, and more. Please note that the information in these essays is not regularly updated.
The Importance of Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable farming offers solutions to the economic, environmental, and animal welfare concerns of our industrial food system.
Intersecting Issues Surrounding Insect Protein
Farming insects for protein is a proposed solution to the environmental and ethical concerns of industrial meat. However, this innovation presents deep environmental, economic, and ethical questions.
Beyond the Check
Providing grantees with additional support and resources beyond financial assistance can strengthen the farmed animal protection movement as a whole.
Overcoming Bias Will Unlock the Cultivated Economy
How can animal advocates shift public perceptions and biases, to unlock the market potential of cultivated meat?
Doing More For Less, by Re-Granting
Guest Author Meghan O'Brien Lowery of the Greenbaum Foundation shares her lessons learned from four years of data about re-granting in the farmed animal protection space.
The Potential of Funder Collaboratives
Funder collaboratives can help funding dollars to go further, be better targeted, and tackle more complex problems.
Climate Finance Campaigners Must Take on the Meat Industry
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.
Why It's Time for the Dairy-Free Movement
Led by Olympian Dotsie Bausch, Switch4Good advocates for plant-based diets for the health and wellbeing of all people, animals, and the planet.
The Food System of Tomorrow: A Call to Action
It is important to transform food systems at global and local levels to reduce GHG emissions, improve ecosystem health, respect animal welfare, and re-balance rural economies.
Building a Food System that Supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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.
The High Cost of Consuming Animals
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.
Industrial Agriculture Threatens Sustainable Development
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 Vision for a Sustainable Food System
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.
Veganuary’s Successful Approach to Changing Diets
Veganuary takes a unique approach to plant-based diet advocacy by engaging both consumers and producers.