About Well-Fed World
Mission Statement:
To promote sustainable, plant-based solutions to global food policy and hunger concerns so as to recenter current decision-making away from its dependence on animal agriculture and its resulting negative consequences.
Audience:
The food policy community, decisionmakers, and public interest groups reforming local and global food systems.
Contact Info:
Dawn Moncrief, Executive Director, is available for speaking engagements. In addition to educating about the general benefits of plant-based diets, her work focuses on the detrimental effects of animal agriculture on world hunger, especially women in less-developed countries. For more information, e-mail dmoncrief(at)wellfedworld.org or call 800.632.8688.
Premises:
- Cycling plant-based foods through animals to produce meat and related animal-based products is inefficient, unsustainable, and detrimental to global hunger solutions.
- Demand for animal products is not "given" or "fixed." Demand is created by cultural institutions, politics, and business interests. Demand for animal products, can be altered through education campaigns and shifting priorities.
- Producing and consuming fewer animal products (especially those raised by intensive farming methods) 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 hunger: scarcity, population, prices, distribution, sustainability, pollution, and other related concerns.
WFW supports these food trends and movements:
- Need-Based
- Sustainable
- Organic
- Fair Trade
- Local
- Diversified (non-monoculture)
- Nutrition-Based
- Labeling
- Seed Saving
WFW supports these movements to increase food security:
- Environmental Protection and Conservation
- Women's Rights and Empowerment
- Civil, Economic and Consumer Rights
- Universal Education and Literacy
- Universal Healthcare and Reproductive Education
- Microlending
- Debt Forgiveness
