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In only 18 months, Hackensack University Medical Center now leads the country in achieving a 98 percent benchmark of meat and poultry raised without routine antibiotics.
[Plant-Forward Future] Entrée recipes submitted by health care facilities across the country to assist you in providing nutritious, delicious meals to your patients, visitors, and staff as you strive to reduce your meat and poultry purchases, and invest the cost savings in sustainable meat options.
(Health Care Without Harm) The toolkit includes a how-to guide for organizing the development and passage of a resolution in your facility, professional association or medical society as well as sample resolution templates.
Farmers markets, mobile markets, and community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs promote access to healthy foods and can strengthen sustainable food systems by supporting local producers while improving the affordability of fresh, local produce for low-income communities.
(Health Care Without Harm) Community gardens can take a variety of forms including rooftop gardens, schoolyard gardens, backyard gardens and neighborhood gardens.
The “Delivering community benefit: Healthy food playbook” inspires and supports health professionals with resources to address diet-related community health needs.
[Plant-Forward Future] Certain dietary patterns have been noted to have the ideal composition for human health and reduced environmental impact. This guide offers procurement recommendations based on values of sustainability, nutrition, social, and animal welfare concerns.
These are sustainability purchasing guidelines for coffee and tea.
Purchasers can take the following steps to source foods produced without the use of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients (also called “genetically modified” or “GMOs”).
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