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$48 Million and Rising: Student Campaigns Transform Cafeteria Food Service

when you know you are on the right track, you upset the “way it  is”

This change has not come without pushback from the conventional agribusiness sector.  When students’ calls for change led top-rated Virginia Tech Dining to switch to cage free eggs, the university soon received angry calls from the state’s industrial egg layers association and their allies in the state’s political establishment.

The campaign has also seen resistance from Aramark–one of the largest multi-national food service companies – which operates cafeterias at 500+ universities.   Unlike some of their competitors, this company has refused to sign on to the movement’s basic transparency standards.

Full Article via Civil Eats