{"id":147,"date":"2015-04-16T01:29:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T01:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2015-05-01T02:02:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T02:02:25","slug":"institutions-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=147","title":{"rendered":"Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/en\/news\/features\/10years-amazon-rainforest060509\/\">McDonald&#8217;s changed it&#8217;s purchasing policy<\/a> so that it would no longer buy chickens fed soy, a leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. In the years since, McDonald&#8217;s policy change has been credited with saving acres of rainforest more than the entire efforts of the Brazilian government. Because\u00a0McDonald&#8217;s is a large purchaser of food, it&#8217;s decisions have large repercussions for the global food system.<\/p>\n<pre><a href=\"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/maxresdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-150 \" src=\"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/maxresdefault-e1429148007363-1024x325.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/mLNTJYXl9Fg\/maxresdefault.jpg\" width=\"762\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>Image: Deforestation in Brazilian rainforest<\/pre>\n<p>With this in mind, we undertook an analysis of the food purchasing institutions in Syracuse and Onondaga County from a purchasing power standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>We focused on Syracuse University as an example of a large purchaser of food in the local food system, and talked to university purchasers and alternative food network leaders to establish a picture of the local food system as it exists currently and where it can potentially go in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, McDonald&#8217;s changed it&#8217;s purchasing policy so that it would no longer buy chickens fed soy, a leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. In the years since, McDonald&#8217;s policy change has been credited with saving acres of rainforest more than the entire efforts of the Brazilian government. Because\u00a0McDonald&#8217;s is a large purchaser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodplancny.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}