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New report showcases leading strategies, policies for scaling up climate-friendly school food
A new, first-of-its-kind report spotlights a growing movement of pioneering school districts using their massive purchasing power to provide plant-forward, climate-friendly food that is healthier for…
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California becomes the first state to require plant-based food options in its state healthcare facilities and prisons
Governor Jerry Brown signed into law S.B. 1138, legislation to require that state-licensed healthcare facilities and state prisons provide plant-based food options to patients and currently incarcerat…
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Foodservice corporations should choose people over profits
Aramark, Sodexo, and Compass group often have exclusive contracts with “Big Food” corporations that systematically lock out smaller, more sustainable producers, fair trade companies, and local far…
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Nationwide campaign calls on Aramark, Compass Group, and Sodexo to reform unjust business practices, invest in Real Food
Aramark, Compass Group, and Sodexo manage over half of the country’s cafeterias at institutions such as universities, hospitals, and prisons. Each year these three foodservice management companies p…
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Climate-friendly menus can take a big bite out of climate change
Livestock production accounts for about 15 percent of global GHG emissions — more than the tailpipe emissions from all the planes, trains, cars and trucks in the world combined!
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Why Non-GMO Plant Based Proteins are One Solution to Factory Farming
Why do we need genetically engineered proteins when many other safe, sustainable and healthy non-GMO or organic plant-based meat and dairy replacements, and other plant proteins, are available and gro…
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Senate Passes Status Quo Farm Bill
At a time of ecological crisis, this Farm Bill worsens the disastrous impacts of climate change, collapsing biodiversity and severely degrading soil, water and air.
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50 Groups Denounce Roundtable on Sustainable Beef as Greenwash
The coalition is encouraging the USRSB “to go back to the drawing board and develop a new framework and plan of action — including the need for regulatory change — that generates far more enviro…
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Leading NGOs expose greenwashing by U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, demand real sustainability plan
We are especially concerned that companies like Walmart, Costco, McDonald’s, Darden and Wendy’s will make sustainability claims to their customers based on the Roundtable’s meager and misguided me…
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Regressive GOP Farm Bill a Disaster for Environment
The bill is a massive handout to corporate agriculture and factory farms that pollute our air, water and soil.