Furman University
IL-36: Red Listed Foods

BON APPÉTIT SUSTAINABLE SOURCING POLICIES:

https://www.bamco.com/sourcing/

https://www.bamco.com/press-releases/animal-welfare-2016/ 

https://www.bamco.com/timeline/crate-free-pork-cage-free-eggs/ 

Summary:

• Turkey and chicken are raised without routine antibiotics (since 2003). Starting in 2003, we required that our chicken and turkey come from animals not given routine, nontherapeutic antibiotics.*
  Updated November 2016: in partnership with the animal welfare certification program Global Animal Partnership (GAP) we have committed to transforming the welfare of the millions of broiler chickens within our supply chain. Through this initiative, all of Bon Appétit’s broiler chickens will be certified under GAP’s 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating program, including: the use of approved genetics for slower-growing strains; offering enrichments including hay bales, perches, and natural light; ensuring minimum space requirements (at least a square foot per 6 lbs); and utilizing Controlled Atmosphere Stunning to render them unconscious prior to shackling. (Performance will be benchmarked annually and publicly reported.)
• Milk and yogurt: In 2003 we switched to milk and yogurt from producers who do not use artificial hormones (rBGH or rBST).*
  New: We agree with the dairy industry’s own decision to phase out the cruel practice of tail docking of dairy cows and are asking all of our suppliers to do so immediately, as well as to cease dehorning without pain management by 2026, or sooner if there are breakthroughs on resolving these issues (such as using polled genetics so that cattle are born without horns). 
• Ground beef: Our ground beef is humanely raised (since 2012)*. Beef: In 2007 we committed to sourcing our ground beef from cows raised without antibiotics ever (sick animals are treated and sold elsewhere), added growth hormones, or animal byproducts in their feed.* In 2012 we broadened that companywide ground-beef requirement to include certification from Humane Farm Animal Care.

In February 2012 we proudly rolled out the food service industry’s most comprehensive farm animal welfare policy to date, to be implemented in all of our cafés in 31 states.

As part of the new policy, Bon Appétit:

• Pork: Required that the contracted pork we serve — currently 3 million pounds annually — come from sows raised in higher-welfare group housing, without unnecessary reliance on cruel gestation crate confinement systems. (The switch was completed in early 2016. In 2019, we notified our supplier that we require full elimination of the use of gestation crates by the end of 2021 and to encourage them to continue their important research on more humane farrowing environments. We would like to see enriched environments for all pigs as well as tail docking and castration either phased out and performed with pain management by 2026, or sooner if there are breakthroughs on resolving these issues.)
• Eggs: Switched our pre-cracked (liquid) eggs — 11 million eggs annually as of 2012 —from hens confined in barren battery cages to hens living in cage-free farms, as we already do for shell eggs, by 2015.* (Completed in early 2016.)
• Foie Gras and veal: Banned foie gras (livers of force-fed ducks) and veal from calves confined in crates from our menus, effective immediately (since 2012).