Food System Solutions

A letter from the founder – the third in a three-part series reflecting on the public’s movement toward the will to end factory farming.

A letter from the founder – the second in a three-part series reflecting on the public’s movement toward the will to end factory farming.

A letter from the founder – the first part in a three-part series reflecting on the public’s movement toward the will to end factory farming.

Changing farming takes working with and learning from farmers directly. Internationalizing the fight beyond US borders ensures all farmers everywhere are heard and retain the right to farm according to their values.

United Nations scientists warn that a climate catastrophe is coming, and a leaked UN document urges a shift to plant-based proteins as a strategy to stave off the most dire scenarios.  

Hello again from 2050. We want you to know that your efforts in 2020 to create a more just food system won’t be for nothing.

Brandon Keim, a freelance journalist writing a speculative fiction piece for Anthropocene magazine about how to prevent zoonoses, asked Farm Forward how to create a future free of pandemics and factory farms. 

This historic legislation has the potential to change the conversation about the future of animal agriculture in America.

Today Farm Forward and more than 120 groups launched a week of action against Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN) demanding the company address the rising number of COVID-19 cases affecting workers at its chicken, pork, and beef processing facilities.

Racism is ethically intolerable, socially debilitating, and it threatens the moral energies that are the foundation of the movement to end factory farming. 

This week the Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition, a broad coalition of family farming, environmental, food safety, and animal welfare organizations, released a letter calling on the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) to include mega-dairy emissions control in their new rule making plan.

This week Farm Forward, along with a coalition of more than 50 organizations, called on Congress to prevent corporate factory farm companies from receiving COVID-19 relief funds, and instead to direct funds to small and midsize farmers and food chain workers who have been disproportionately impacted by the crisis.  

Author and professor David Clough speaks to classrooms around the world in Farm Forward’s latest Virtual Visit Session. Learn more here.

Farm Forward opposes the proposed bill because it fails to create a rigorous enough process to evaluate the impact of proposed CAFOs or adequately protect Oregon’s land and water, its family farms, or farmed animals from the inherent harms of factory farms.

Stand Up To Factory Farms Coalition and Supporters Say the New Easterday Farms Dairy Would Repeat the Troubled History of Lost Valley 

Institutions are enjoying the ethical and sustainable benefits of the Leadership Circle. Learn about Harvard Business School’s efforts here.

Earlier this year, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens joined the Leadership Circle by sourcing exclusively certified higher welfare chicken and turkey for their restaurant, Café Phipps.

Join us in welcoming our newest Board Members whose expertise and real world experience advise and progress our organization. Read more.

By purchasing whole animals from local higher welfare farms, UK demonstrates how institutions can improve animal welfare, support local economies, and reduce carbon emissions while maintaining affordable dining operations.

New Executive Director Andrew deCoriolis speaks on his path to his new role, and goals for Farm Forward’s impactful future. Read more here.

More institutions are taking advantage of the benefits of the Leadership Circle, like Villanova University. Learn more here.

Commendable efforts by Perdue Farms to progress poultry farming on an industrial scale. See how they are committing to animal welfare here.

Blue Apron, a national favorite meal delivery service, commits to only sourcing the best. See what they’re doing that’s better. Read more.

The incredibly effective and simple idea that will lower your food costs, strengthen your health, and be better for the planet. Learn more.

With harassment prevalent in the animal rights movement, Farm Forward states the damage this does and the direct action we take to fight it.

Leadership Circle raises the bar and helps you meet it by developing the network of higher-welfare farms, and driving consumer demand to them.

One hog farmer, Paul Willis, chose farming over industrialized production, and has shown us what high-welfare pig farming looks like.

What sets Farm Forward apart from other animal welfare groups is our visionary leadership that looks beyond suffering reduction to the overall institutional and cultural change that will end factory farming.

Our Faith in Food Initiative is the largest national effort to promote community-specific efforts to fight factory farming from a faith-based perspective.

The University of California (UC) system announced that eight of its ten schools will now purchase eggs from certified higher welfare farms.

Solution to the world’s farming problem has to involve farmers! Our goal is to support and learn from those industry leaders. Here’s how.

Ethics are shaped throughout history by religion’s vital role. Join us in turning to the animal activists in these religious spaces.

Every Thanksgiving, we gather with our family and friends to celebrate what we’ve been thankful for in the past year. Thanksgiving, more than any other American holiday, also invites us to reflect on the food we put on our table.