Maya B. Mathur
Seth Ariel Green's website
Description: Drawing on interdisciplinary expertise in statistics, behavior interventions, psychology, and other fields, our team studies innovative, evidence-based routes to transition away from animal farming.
Transitions in global food systems have complex effects . Switching from red meat to white meat is often recommended as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but doing so dramatically exacerbates the animal welfare harms caused by factory farming. Since chickens and fish are much smaller than cows and pigs, shifting the food system to white meat would require vastly more animals to be raised in factory farms (or comparable aquaculture systems) to feed humans. This leads to dramatically worse net conse
Ethical concern about factory farming has become a majority view in several countries ; these concerns should be taken seriously as we build sustainable global food systems. Intensive farming of chickens and fish also does not address problems of antibiotic resistance and zoonotic diseases. We are committed to facilitating plant-forward food systems that address these considerations holistically.
By mentoring future researchers as PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and staff scientists, we are working to build a new academic field at the nexus of animal welfare, food sustainability, and climate change.
Maya B. Mathur
Seth Ariel Green's website