Animal welfare lacks sufficient methods for quantitative inclusion in food system impact assessments. The Welfare Footprint Framework addresses this gap, revealing that adopting slower-growing breeds ...

BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Welfare Footprint Institute’s board of directors provides strategic guidance, drawing on decades of collective experience. The board unites experts in animal welfare, evolutiona...

This journal article applies the Welfare Footprint Framework to chicken farming, showing the investment and benefits of raising slower-growing chicken breeds.

An interview conducted in rural India in May, 2017, with Kirk Smith, the Berkeley environmental health researcher who, through nearly four decades of globe-spanning study, revealed the huge health costs from smoke produced as women cook on solid fuels in hundreds of millions of poor households every day. He is now studying ways to accelerate adoption of LPG, the same propane gas found in cylinders beneath millions of suburban backyard grills and widely available in most developing countries, as well. More in ProPublica here: https://www.propublica.org/article/cookstoves-push-to-protect-the-planet-falls-short