Objectives
To promote the benefits of sustainable, plant-rich solutions in response to global food security, health, hunger, and environmental concerns.
To encourage NGOs, think tanks, social justice leaders, and government decision-makers to include the benefits of plant-rich diets and reduced global meat consumption in their policies and recommendations.
To provide financial and material assistance to locally-active groups with similar missions, especially in low-income and disenfranchised communities.
Industrialized meat production is rising at an alarming rate and severely aggravating the world’s most dangerous and persistent social ills. While there is widespread agreement that increasing livestock numbers and meat overconsumption are ‘major threats,’ decision-makers and opinion leaders have historically avoided recommending the obvious and relatively easy-to-implement solution–reducing global meat production/consumption–thus, Reversing the Livestock Revolution.
A Well-Fed World seeks to remedy this situation by:
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connecting the issues and demonstrating the benefits of reduced meat consumption for other social justice concerns;
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providing information on to the public, advocates and decision-makers;
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empowering local groups to create change in their communities; and
providing nutritious plant-based food relief to those in need.
Our Niche
A Well-Fed World joins the small but increasing number of health, hunger and environmental organizations that explicitly promote the benefits of wholesome, plant-rich eating. We create structural change at all levels and connect with other social justice groups, while providing immediate plant-based food relief to those in need.
Based in Washington, DC, we work across the partisan, issue, and religious divides to empower individuals, grassroots groups, and national leaders. We connect with a broad range of social justice organizations around eating green in general and reversing the “Livestock Revolution” in particular.
Because of the immediate need as well as immense and unnecessary suffering, we focus on global hunger and global warming issues.
Plant-Rich Focus
A Well-Fed World specifically highlights the benefits of reducing global meat consumption because of its immense and immediate potential for positive change, its relative ease in implementing, and its compatibility with other reforms.
The majority of environmental, health, and food reform organizations acknowledge the benefits of reducing global and minimizing individual meat consumption, but resist advocating solutions that may seem personally difficult or alienate their member base. The exceptions are vegetarian and animal organizations that explicitly advocate “kicking the meat habit.”
Fortunately, the idea of “kicking the meat habit” is going mainstream, at least with partial measures like the increasing popularity of Meatless Monday and similar campaigns. Practices do not need to be all-or-nothing to be powerful. Half steps taken on a grand scale will make a much bigger impact than a small percentage of people following the ideal recommendations.
That’s why A Well-Fed World promotes the ideal, while encouraging others to step-up to the challenge as much as possible. The more change that’s implemented, the greater the impact. Go very green and plant-based (vegan/no animal products) for maximum health, animal, and environmental benefits. Not ready yet? Go some green and plant-rich (minimizing animal products) and gain proportional benefits.
Premises
- Cycling plant foods through animals to produce meat is inefficient and detrimental to global hunger and global warming solutions.
- Demand for animal products is not “given” or “fixed.” Demand is created by habit, cultural institutions, politics, and financial interests. Demand for animal products can be altered through education campaigns and financial incentives.
- Producing and consuming fewer animal products is much-neglected but critical “part of the solution” for industrialized and developing countries. While this step is not a panacea, it will drastically improve key areas of concern for reducing global warming and global hunger (scarcity, population, prices, distribution, sustainability, pollution, and other related concerns).