At Mercy For Animals, protecting the rights of farmed animals is our top priority. We also recognize the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and want MOD Pizza to be able to do everything it can to prevent the spread of this virus. To that end, we have temporarily suspended our public awareness campaign.
Meet Ally Svenson
Ally Svenson is co-founder and protector of the purpose of MOD Pizza, a pizza chain with more than 400 locations across the United States.
Ally Svenson has the power and responsibility to address the chicken cruelty allowed in MOD Pizza’s supply chain.
MOD Pizza recently became the subject of a public awareness campaign highlighting their failure to spare animals horrific suffering by banning the cruelest practices. Many of their competitors, including Blaze Pizza, Papa John’s, and Mellow Mushroom, as well as more than 200 other brands, have already committed to banning the cruelest practices in their supply chains.
MOD Pizza claims to serve “food to feel good about,” but it’s hard to feel good about a company that allows the worst forms of animal cruelty to go unaddressed.
MOD Pizza boasts on their website that they are “mindful of animal ethics.” It’s time for Ally to live up to that claim and use her power to commit to banning the worst chicken cruelty from MOD Pizza’s supply chain. If Ally Svenson listened to her customers’ demands and truly cared about serving “food to feel good about,” she would step up and ban this cruelty at MOD Pizza.
More About Ally
Before founding MOD Pizza, Ally and her husband, Scott, founded and sold Seattle Coffee Company in the U.K. In the U.K., Scott and Ally were instrumental in growing the Carluccio’s U.K. brand before moving to Seattle, Washington to open MOD Pizza together in 2008. In Seattle, Ally became a board member of Evergreens. Ally graduated with a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1989.
- “Using Pizza as a Platform for Social Impact,” October 11, 2017, Seattle University, Albers School of Business and Economics Executive Speaker Series
- 2019 Golden Chain Awards, Leading CEO Panel, October 14-16, 2019, Nation’s Restaurant News’ Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators Conference
- CEO Summit, 2019, Conscious Capitalism