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How can we make big corporate food service companies more environmentally responsible?
Chefs are always aware of the seasons as it brings a change in availability of produce. The availability of product and it’s price flux makes us painfully aware of weather, political, and social changes.
The restaurant industry is seeing a shift towards more eco-friendly packaging for both raw products coming in the back door, and prepared items going out the front door.
Yet, while many chefs are taking on the challenge of finding organic foods, purchasing from local farms and supporting sustainable agriculture practices, the environment is still hurting.
Many large food service corporations, such as Sodexho, Compass, and Aramark who net billions of dollars annually, are not as strict in practicing eco-friendly habits as small scale restaurants are.
How can we make these large companies make environmentally responsible changes?
Don’t do business with food service companies you deem to be not environmentally responsible. Hit them where it hurts, in their wallet.
Don’t Pack a Pest
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Green Light Organic Neem Concentrate – Pint 17016 $11.63 3 products in 1, insecticide, fungicide, and miticide. For use on flowers, trees, ornamentals, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Kills insects and mites by suffocation and repels many pests. May be used up until the day of harvest on vegetables. Shields to prevent the germination and penetration of fungal spores on leaf surfaces. Pint concentrate bottle…. |
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Bayer 701515A Tree And Shrub Care $68.75 Protects trees and shrubs from insect damage. Kills various insects including Japanese Beetles and the Emerald Ash Borer. Works systemically to protect roots, branches, and leaves. 1 treatment can last up to 12 months. Contains: Imidacloprid…. |
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Orbit SunMate 58322 Heavy Duty Traveling Lawn and Garden Irrigation Watering Sprinkler – Cast iron – Ideal for extra large lawns – Adjusts from 15ft to 55ft diameter coverage – Open box $89.99 Orbit SunMate 58322 Heavy Duty Traveling Irrigation Sprinkler – Cast iron – Ideal for extra large lawns. Open box – Product packaging will have shelfware – Item is new… |
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General Tools MMD4E Digital Moisture Meter $33.90 Ideal to use in woodworking, building construction, and agriculture. LCD display. Wide measuring range. Check wood, drywall, and concrete before painting, sealing, or treating. Locate and identify water leaks in roofs, floors, and walls…. |
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American Weigh Scale Amw-tl440 Industrial Heavy Duty Digital Hanging Scale, 440-Pound $52.50 The TL-Series heavy duty hanging scales are perfect for industrial weighing applications. Includes shackle with locking latch and an S-hook for attaching loads…. |
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Orbit SunMate Heavy Duty Traveling Lawn and Garden Irrigation Watering Sprinkler – Cast iron – Ideal for extra large lawns – Adjusts from 15ft to 55ft diameter coverage $89.99 Orbit SunMate 58322 Heavy Duty Traveling Irrigation Sprinkler – Cast iron – Ideal for extra large lawns. Product packaging will have shelfware… |
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Farming Simulator $11.99 TRI SYNERGY INC 811002-010603 FARMING SIMULATOR… |
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals $7.70 A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us–whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed–he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is… |
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Leavings (Paperback) $10.07 Wendell Berry, best known for his essay collection BRINGING IT TO THE TABLE, which details the benefits of sustainable agriculture and organic food, is perhaps the only farmer to hit the bestseller lists in recent memory. Berry returns to poetry with t… |
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Leavings (Hardcover) $17.08 Wendell Berry, best known for his essay collection BRINGING IT TO THE TABLE, which details the benefits of sustainable agriculture and organic food, is perhaps the only farmer to hit the bestseller lists in recent memory. Berry returns to poetry with t… |
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Global Change and Baltic Coastal Zones (Hardcover) $124.79 Climate change and ongoing transformation processes in economy and agriculture will have strong and multiple impacts in the Baltic region. In particular coastal zones face increasing hazards, e.g. due to sea level rise or changes in riverine nutrient l… |
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Agriscience Career Exploration (CD-ROM) $654.33 Would you like to help point your students in the right direction in terms of an ultimate career path in Agriculture? Do you know a student who is not so sure of what they want to be when “they grow up” Or maybe they already have a career in mind and t… |
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Changing Natures (Paperback) $23.81 The adoption of agriculture is often described as one of the most fundamental revolutions in human history, the starting point for urbanisation and specialisation. More recently the structure of the Neolithic mind has been proposed as a new cognitive r… |
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Mountain View $18.69 Mountain View earned its name for its scenic vantage pointbetween the Santa Cruz and Diablo ranges. Founded as a stagecoach stop along the El Camino Real in 1852, Mountain View became a diverse and bountiful agricultural community in the ?Valle… |
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