Bon App?tit, the company that supplies food to the Terrace Dining Room, has won an award from the Ecological Society of America for its environment-friendly practices.
Bon App?tit, based in Palo Alto, Calif., runs more than 190 cafeterias in office buildings, universities and other venues, according to an AU press release.
"The company has incorporated many programs aimed at incorporating socially and environmentally responsible practices," said Dr. Kate Lathja, member and Chair of the Corporate Award Subcommittee.
The honor was awarded based on several of Bon App?tit's initiatives, including campaigning to provide diners with more food bought from local farmers near the cafeteria, purchasing fish caught according to preventative over-fishing guidelines and refusing to purchase meat from animals given drugs.
The company purchases only poultry that has been produced without the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics, particularly antibiotics that belong to classes of compounds used in human medicine.
"Adopting a groundbreaking antibiotics policy is no easy feat," said Millie Chu Baird, policy specialist at Environmental Defense, who nominated Bon App?tit for the award.
