“The Humane and Sustainable Food Lab would spend marginal funding on research to end factory farming” by MMathur🔸
Description
Background on HSFL
The Humane and Sustainable Food Lab (HSFL) is a research lab at Stanford University dedicated to accelerating the end of factory farming. We are interdisciplinary behavior scientists, e.g., we evaluate how adding plant-based options to menus, changes to choice architecture, or documentaries affect dietary choices and attitudes towards factory-farmed products. We also do more meta-level work, such as meta-analyses and re-analyses of existing research, as well as evaluations of existing campaigns by nonprofit partners like New Roots Institute, Food for Climate League, and Greener by Default.
See here for our lab's philosophy and here for our 2024 year in review.
Our current funding situation
We are lucky to have ongoing support from multiple university and private sources, including Open Philanthropy. We also ordinarily have research funded by the National Institutes of Health. However, this year, as you might imagine, that has been a little more complicated than usual. The government shutdown also delayed a funding decision we’ve been expecting.
In light of this uncertainty, we’ve scaled back a few projects, cut staff time, and delayed other projects that we’re excited about.
Projects we’d devote marginal funding to
- A ‘True Cost of Food’ [...]
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Outline:
(00:13 ) Background on HSFL
(01:00 ) Our current funding situation
(01:34 ) Projects we'd devote marginal funding to
(02:34 ) Questions or comments?
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First published:
November 17th, 2025
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
United States
