Green Mountain College
OP-7: Low Impact Dining

The performance year for expenses on animal products and total expenses on food is calendar year 2012. This year was chosen because it is the most recent year for which data are available. The % of animal products were estimated based on a sample of October 2012 for all outside vendors and all annual expenditures from the campus farm, which together represent over 15% of the total annual expenditures that year. The % of animal products were adjusted to account for the fact that purchases from outside vendors exceed those from the campus farm. Every receipt from October, 2012 was examined in detail and each animal product expenditure was tallied into a conventional or non-conventional category after research was conducted to determine the sustainability of each product. The percentages were then multiplied by the total annual expenditures on all food products. Expenditures from the farm were then added. All animal products purchased from the campus farm were considered non-conventional because the campus farm is Certified as Animal Welfare Approved and all meat products are produced with standards that exceed conventional organic in most categories.

Green Mountain College offers vegetarian and vegan food choices at every meal. At breakfast, lunch, and dinner Chartwells offers protein rich vegetarian and vegan options as well as non-vegetarian options. Sample Menus are available on the Dine On Campus website: http://www.dineoncampus.com/greenmtn/

Chartwells partners with the Green Mountain College Farm to feature animal derived products that are raised by the students at the farm. In the past year (FY 2014) they have featured beef, pork and poultry(eggs). Additionally, they utilize humanely raised poultry from Murray's Chicken distributed locally by Purdy & Sons in Sherburne, NY. They also procure grass-fed beef from Purdy who sources it from regionally local farms.

The performance year for expenses on animal products and total expenses on food is calendar year 2012. This year was chosen because it is the most recent year for which applicable data were available when the inventory was conducted. The % of animal products were estimated based on a sample which included of all outside vendor purchases made in October 2012 and all annual expenditures from the campus farm, which together represent over 15% of the total annual expenditures that year. The % of animal products were adjusted to account for the fact that purchases from outside vendors exceed those from the campus farm. In 2013, GMC earned Animal Welfare Approved certification for dairy cattle and poultry products produced on the campus farm. Additionally, the farm operates under standards that exceed conventional organic in most categories. Information for this credit came from Aaron Witham, Nicole Harman '16, Kenneth Mulder, Cindy Ondria, and Dave Ondria.