Does your local shelter have a policy to serve vegan food at their events?
The Report Card lists all the organizations Food for Thought has contacted. Organizations are graded on whether they have a vegan, vegetarian, or
no policy. Contact your local shelter and encourage them to create a
vegan or vegetarian menu policy!

Sample email

Contact your local shelter using this sample email:

Hello,

My name is [Your Name] and I am a local resident of [City]. I appreciate all the work [Organization Name] is doing to help animals. However, I will not attend your events because you serve meat and other animal by-products. Why do you serve animals at events to raise funds for different animals? It’s inconsistent with your mission of saving animals. Farmed animals in the food industry suffer tremendously and roughly 10 billion land animals are killed for food each year in the US alone. Our community looks to you to set an example for animal-welfare standards, so it doesn’t make sense for you to support this cruel industry. I ask you to please extend your compassion to all animals by serving only vegan foods at your events and fundraisers.

Animal Place’s Food for Thought Program makes it easy. They will help your organization adopt a board-approved, written policy to serve only vegan or vegetarian food at your events. They will answer your questions and address any concerns you may have. They even offer grant opportunities! Please contact them at FoodForThought@AnimalPlace.org. Thank you for your consideration!

Your community member,
[Your Name]

Report Card Key

A: organization has board-approved policy to serve only vegan food at their events

B: organization has a board-approved policy to serve only vegetarian food at their events

C: organization serves only vegan or vegetarian food at their events, but they do not have a written policy approved by their board

F: organization has been contacted by FFT but was unresponsive, or they confirmed they serve meat at events; (this list also includes organizations that confirmed they currently do not serve food at events but have been been invited by FFT to create a policy for future use)

Our lists are updated regularly, but if you see an organization that has been misreported, please contact us!

Downloadable Graphics

Shelters need to hear from their community. Download these graphics and send them to your local shelter by email, or share it on social media and tag them. To download them, right-click on the image and click “Save image as…”