by Student/Farmworker Alliance In just a few days, many of us will gather with our families around a table brimming with turkey and all the trimmings to reflect upon all that we are thankful for—from another year of health and happiness to the football game we’ll watch over our second slice of pumpkin pie. Unfortunately, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Aramark’
This Thanksgiving, take action to end the harvest of shame in the fields
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aramark, campaign for fair food, ciw, farmworkers, giant, harvest, immokalee, kroger, publix, ralph's, sfa, sodexo, stop & shop, supermarkets, tomato on November 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Wait. What Happened Five Years Ago?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aramark, assessment, college dining, contracts, fair labor, institutional procurement, Sustainability on May 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
By Hai Vo Five summers ago, University of California Irvine Dining & Hospitality signed a multi-million dollar contract with Aramark, one of the largest national and international food service companies, to extend operations from pre-existing residential dining halls to all retail dining locations except for one coffee cart near the Physical Sciences. Aramark “provides a [...]
Big Apples
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aramark, Food and Puchasing Subcommittee, local food, NYU, organic, Real Food Summit, Sustainability on July 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
New York University has seven dining halls, which many of our 20,000 undergraduate students never use after the expiration of their freshman year meal plan. Until my sophomore spring, while concentrating my academics on Northeast agriculture and sustainable farming, I had no intention of getting involved with the food system at NYU. Having matriculated to [...]
