Sustainability Within the Food Industry

Sustainability Within The Food Industry

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What is Sustainability?

• 3 goals: environmental health, economic profitability, & social/economic equity

• Triple bottom line: thinking about the impact of choices environmentally, socially, and economically

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Triple Bottom Line

Environment

Society

Economy

Food Corporate Responsibility

• Food businesses have a huge impact on the environment

• Consumer concerns = emergence of organic food

• Focus on animal welfare

• Fair trade pricing: support prices to suppliers that promote longevity & avoid poverty

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Corporate Social Responsibilities

= Highlights key sustainability categories.

What does “organic” mean?

• Food grown/raised that promotes biodiversity & biological cycles

• To be labeled “organic” food has to comply with guidelines set by the USDA “Organic Rule”

• Growing trend throughout agriculture in the U.S. (i.e. graph on next slide)

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Organic Agriculture Growers in CA 2009-2012

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Chipotle: Sustainable Food

• Chipotle Mexican Grill would be considered a “sustainable food business”

• All meat is naturally raised

• All produce is locally grown (within 350 miles of each establishment)

• No added hormones in dairy cattle

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• 100% recycled materials used in napkins

• Promotes sustainable farming

• 93% recycled materials used in burrito bowls

• 95% recycled materials used in aluminum lids

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Sources

Houtman, Ann, and Susan Karr. Scientific American Environmental Science for a

Changing World Extended. New York: MPS, 2014. Print.

Maloni, Michael J., and Michael E. Brown. "Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain: An Application in the Food Industrt." Journal of Business Ethics (2006): 38. Springer. Web. 6 Mar. 2014.

"Organic Food FAQs | Whole Foods Market." Whole Foods Market. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Mar. 2014.

Klonsky, Karen, and Brian D. Healy. "Statistical Review of California's Organic Agriculture." UC Davis, Oct. 2013. Web. 6 Mar. 2014.

www.chipotle.com