A Well-Fed World

06/05/2026

Food for thought this World Environment Day! Get more facts about the environmental impacts of your food choices at climatefoodguide.org

06/04/2026

What a beautiful and important article.

A bird-watcher can tell a lot about a bird, from its habits to its individual personality. But a meat-eating society discourages us from looking too closely at the bird we encounter most: the chicken.

🦩 Read more: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-do-we-love-birds-but-slaughter-chickens

05/29/2026

It's ! Here's an excerpt from our new blog post!
awellfedworld.org/plant-based-hunger-relief-vegan-advocacy

"Plant-based food aid not only helps create the conditions needed for a greater global shift to more plant-based diets; it also demonstrates solidarity with other humans and causes for justice. Food is a universally and politically meaningful form of care, and can serve as a bridge between justice movements.

Despite growing recognition that systems of oppression are interconnected, animal advocacy and human justice movements often remain siloed—both ideologically and financially. Too often, helping humans is seen as outside the scope of vegan or animal rights work, rather than being recognized as a strategic and ethical extension of it— even when that work is clearly rooted in vegan values and led by vegan organizations.

As a result, critical opportunities for solidarity-based, movement-building work remain underfunded, despite their clear potential to strengthen public trust, forge alliances, and grow awareness of the relevance of animal liberation to human justice causes.

The misconception that 'vegans only care about animals' continues to undermine the credibility and coalition-building capacity of the movement. Our Plants-4-Hunger and Feeding Equity initiatives directly challenge this narrative by showing that vegan organizations and individuals are actively working for human rights and justice alongside their work for animal rights."

Read more at our new blog post for World Hunger Day: https://awellfedworld.org/plant-based-hunger-relief-vegan-advocacy

05/22/2026

"Climate change, declining livestock numbers, and geopolitical conflicts are rapidly driving up meat prices, positioning plant-based eating as a more wallet-friendly dietary choice now.

Climate advocacy group Madre Brava’s analysis of European data suggests that the cost of plant proteins, such as legumes and tofu, has not increased as dramatically as those of beef, pork, and chicken.

On average, meat prices have surged by 29% in Spain, 34% in Germany, and 42% in the UK since 2019. This has further deepened the chasm between meat and dried pulses (which have always been affordable protein sources) across all these countries.

Plant-based meat alternatives, for their part, are now €0.40 and £0.29 cheaper per kg than conventional processed meat in Germany and the UK, respectively, flipping the script from pre-pandemic levels, when they were €2.36 and £0.40 more expensive."

Eating Better, ProVeg UK, WWF, The Food Foundation and Madre Brava have launched a petition setting out four steps to grow plant-based food sales by 2030 and beyond

05/19/2026

A helpful reminder. As ecofeminist Greta Gaard has observed, “[A]ll forms of oppression are now so inextricably linked that liberation efforts must be aimed at dismantling the system itself.”

05/15/2026

"We are living through a geological era that scientists have termed the Anthropocene, an age in which human activity is recognized as the most dominant and destructive influence on Earth’s climate, environment, and ecosystems. Among these activities, human use and abuse of animals is implicated in multiple overlapping crises, from climate change to many of the worst pandemics in history, as well as unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss and species extinction.

Between 1970 and 2018, global wildlife populations fell by nearly 70%, while species in freshwater lakes, rivers and wetlands declined by an average of 83%. Species are going extinct 1,000 times faster than in pre-human times, at a rate that far exceeds the worst extinction event in history.

Apace with these staggering rates of wildlife disappearance, numbers of domesticated animals—mostly farmed—have soared to a stupefying artificial imbalance. A report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that farmed poultry now comprise 70% of all bird biomass on the planet, while 60% of all mammalian biomass belongs to animals who are farmed (mostly cattle and pigs); 36% is human; and a mere 4% is wild. Across the globe, wild creatures and their homes continue to be displaced on a massive scale to make room for ever more grazing pasture and vast feed crop monocultures for farmed animals.

It’s no coincidence that our systematic destruction of animal lives is also destroying the planet. Increasingly, we are seeing an alarming feedback loop between human health and ecological crises, whereby the intensification of one exacerbates and increases one or more of the others.

To return to a previous example, farming animals is a major driver of climate change. Climate change is a leading cause of global food insecurity. The production of animal-based foods, with such disproportionate land requirements, is also the single greatest driver of deforestation and habitat loss. Deforestation, in turn, is a leading cause of climate change, biodiversity loss, species extinction, and zoonotic diseases and pandemics.

In light of these converging catastrophes, epidemiologists, environmental scientists, food security and global health experts, including the World Health Organization, have instituted a 'One Health' framework that emphasizes the interdependence of human and nonhuman animal well-being and the health of ecosystems."

Learn more about One Health and how your food choices can support this important scientific recognition: https://awellfedworld.org/highlight/one-health/

05/12/2026

"A few decades ago, veganism was marginal, inaccessible, and widely misunderstood. Today: Plant-based alternatives now exist for virtually every major animal product. All major supermarket chains offer non-dairy milks and a range of vegan foods. Conferences, news outlets, online networks, and international organizations are dedicated to veganism and plant-based living. Entire restaurants — even supermarkets — are fully plant-based in some cities. A flourishing ecosystem of over 800 vegan startups is helping revolutionize the food industry. World-famous celebrities are using their platforms to advocate for veganism. Cities have started banning meat advertising. Vegan athletes are breaking world records and taking home dozens of gold medals. Tens of millions of people worldwide identify as vegan.

This didn’t happen by accident. And it didn’t happen overnight. It’s the result of sustained cultural, technological, and ethical shifts — the kind that don’t simply reverse because of a few years of market volatility. Early vegan pioneers could only have dreamed of this kind of support structure. Imagine how confused they would be hearing people today say, 'veganism is dying.'

There’s also a deeper misunderstanding behind these reactions. People often assume that ethical choices should depend on popularity or momentum. They don’t. You don’t stop rejecting injustice because others haven’t caught up yet. You don’t abandon your values because progress isn’t fast enough.

Choosing not to contribute to unnecessary harm isn’t about being on the 'winning side.' It’s about consistency between what you believe and how you act.

Even if the world were moving in the wrong direction — that wouldn’t make the right choice any less right."

They want you to believe change isn’t coming. It is.

05/10/2026

"The realization that broke my heart most was also the simplest.

𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙨.

It sounds obvious, almost childish. But we rarely allow ourselves to truly think about it.

𝘼 𝙘𝙤𝙬 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙨—the same length as human pregnancy. But in the dairy industry, calves are taken away from their mothers shortly after birth so the milk intended for them can be sold for human consumption.

Many farmers acknowledge that mothers often call out for their babies for days after separation.

As someone who had experienced the loss of a mother figure, this realization struck something deep inside me.

𝙒𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣.

And we called it food."

This Mother's Day, we are so grateful to Karyna Blake for crafting this thoughtful, powerfully moving reflection. You'll want to read it in full: https://mothersagainstdairy.org/mindful-motherhood-isnt-a-trend-its-an-awakening-the-whole-world-needs/

05/08/2026

The House has already voted in support of this egregious act. Contact your senators asap! From Resistance Kitchen: "Since the 1960s, farmers have kept pregnant pigs in gestation crates. These metal cages, with a slatted floor and no bedding, allow enough room for a pig to stand up and lie down but not turn around. Mother pigs spend most of their lives in either these cages or in farrowing crates where they give birth and nurse their piglets through bars.

It’s an appallingly cruel practice and some states are phasing these crates out. Through voter-backed ballot measures, California and Massachusetts have even banned the sale of pork products from other states if animals were raised under these conditions....The Save Our Bacon Act aims to undo the laws that give pregnant pigs some small measure of humane treatment.

If you are in the U.S., ask your senators to oppose the farm bill if the Save Our Bacon Act stays in it. Call the United States Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to your senator. If you feel shy about leaving a message, visit your senator’s or representative’s website (you can find it here) and use their contact form to send an email."

*A note: we recognize that there is nothing humane about farming or killing sentient beings, no matter what the conditions or farm type. A quick call or email to demand your rejection of this act could help reduce a lot of suffering, and you can do so while still choosing and advocating veganism as a moral baseline.

05/06/2026

There’s a lot we can’t control but it’s important to remember the power of our small daily choices. Get empowered and learn how to plate up for the planet with our free Climate Food Guide!