The Food
Since 2002, the Sustainable Food Project and Yale University Dining Services have collaborated to change the culture of food at Yale. They started with the premise that food choices have an ethical and ecological impact, and that the best tasting food is local, seasonal, and sustainable. Their buying practices aim to nourish the well-being of those eating and working at Yale, contribute to the vitality of agricultural communities, and protect the long-term health of the environment. Their choices about food are integral to the University’s goals of becoming a sustainable institution and reducing carbon emissions.
Today, each college serves the same sustainable food: a fully sustainable meal at Sunday brunches, Thursday lunches, and Wednesday and Thursday dinners; a sustainable entrée and side at every lunch and dinner; organic milk, coffee, yogurt, tea, bananas, granola, and tomato sauce at every meal. The Project aims for each of the 1.8 million meals Yale’s dining halls serve each year to feature entirely local, seasonal, and sustainable food.
Read more about this topic: Yale Sustainable Food Project
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“From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage’s preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.”
—Paul Goodman (1911–1972)