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Proclamation
We believe that food matters... to the health of communities, individuals, and the planet.
We believe that our daily food choices make a difference to the local economy, to soil and water quality, to the lives of laborers here and abroad, and to our physical and spiritual health.
And, in the interest of promoting a food system more friendly to the planet, our health, and our pocketbooks, we support the expansion of food choices at PSU that include:
- locally and sustainably grown food
- less packaging
- more recycling and composting
- affordable, good food
- living wages and working conditions
- community-based management
Vision
The bulk of the food in PSU's food service is procured locally and grown sustainably. The food service offers a wide variety of healthy, tasty, reasonably priced food. Disposable materials are eliminated as much as possible, and recycling and composting are practiced diligently. Both are easily accessible throughout campus. Students participate in all important decision making regarding university services, the student union, and campus food service. Decision making is an open and transparent process. PSU operates under a code of conduct for labor, environment, and social and economic responsibility in all of its services and products that it sells, including those it contracts out.
Goals
- Create a small, student run cafe up that embodies sustainability principles.
- Create a campus garden and/or improve on the existing one to provide some of the food for the cafe and draw
on local, sustainable growers.
- Integrate food growing and cafe service into some courses/curricula.
- Enhance sustainability performance of all PSU food services.
- Increase student involvement in sustainable food issues and campus decisionmaking.
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