Bon Appétit Management Company

For its annual Low Carbon Diet Day, held on Earth Day, Bon Appétit Management Company will turn its more than 500 cafés into culinary classrooms to deliver climate change information. This year’s theme, Your Lunch is Heating Up!, will examine how crops such as corn, wheat, rice, fruit, dairy and coffee will fare in a changing climate.

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.

Bon Appétit at St. Edward’s University springs for the cost of offsite composting, mindful that the environmental benefits outweigh all other costs.

Campus Farmers is a social networking website aimed at connecting campus growers across the nation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bon Appétit Management Company hopes it has grown large enough to demand change from the ranchers and farmers it buys from.

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.