The story "Sustainability on the menu" is all about college cafeteria's, why food the school is serving and what they are doing to become a green school. The author if the piece, Carl Pino wrote some very interesting statistics. The Sustainable Endowment Institute (SEI) is a company that looks at about 200 colleges initiatives and their 2007 Report Card tells us a lot about these schools. More than 70 Percent of schools "Devote at least a portion of food budgets to buying from local farms and / or producers. This tells is that the institutions really care about getting food that is better for the students and administration working and studying at these various colleges. He also goes on to state that "29 Percent of schools on the institute list earned an "A" in the "Food and Recycling" category.
At various universities (Yale, Princeton etc.) they have provided their students healthier options and better options. This is great because the topic about food has always been debated and people have always been concerned about what's exactly in the food we eat. I'm happy that colleges have taken initiative to make eating habits better.
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