When BAMCO CEO Fedele Bauccio recently read a Pork Network op-ed by food industry and consumer advocate Rick Berman blasting the movement to ban gestation crates, he was moved to draft a response.
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Bon Appétit Provides New Compost Bins in Campus Dining Halls
- News Hilltop Views
Bon Appétit at St. Edward’s University springs for the cost of offsite composting, mindful that the environmental benefits outweigh all other costs.
Amid Resurgence, Campus Farmers Create Social Network
- News USA Today College
Campus Farmers is a social networking website aimed at connecting campus growers across the nation.
Comparing notes: New Website Lets Student Farmers Connect
- News Grist
BAMCO’s latest project recognizes the need for student farms to connect not only with hyper-local markets, but with each other, so they can share resources and support.
Campus Farmers: College Kids are Getting Their Hands Dirty
- News Take Part
A new social network gives aspiring farmers a place to ask questions, find friends, and figure out how to make a living on the land.
Diners Served Up “Wallflowers” of the Sea
- News Boston Globe
Bon Appetit, a California-based food service company that caters to corporations, universities and specialty venues – including MIT, Emmanuel and Wesleyan – has declared today Eat (Local) Fish Challenge Day to introduce diners in the 500 cafes they run in 32 states to local – and sustainable – “wallflower” fish.
Bon Appetit to Buy Humanely Raised Ground Beef Only
- News Washington Post
On our announcement that we will source all of our ground beef — more than a million pounds a year — from suppliers that meet strict animal-welfare standards.
The Most Sweeping Anti-Cruelty Policy in the Food Service Industry
- News The Atlantic
Bon Appétit Management Company hopes it has grown large enough to demand change from the ranchers and farmers it buys from.
Beyond Porkwashing: Food Service Company Commits to Humane Meat
- News Grist
it’s refreshing to see that Bon Appétit Management Company (BAMCO) has promised to phase out pork produced in gestation crates, do away with all eggs from confined hens, and source at least 25 percent of their meat from farms that are third-party-certified humane by 2015.
Bon Appétit Announces Animal Welfare Reforms
- News Washington Post