Earth Friendly Food

Who are we?

We are Earth Friendly Food, a new social organization geared toward integrating sustainable foods into college lifestyles. At U-M, so many students try to explore or maintain a number of alternative diets (no peanuts, no eggs, vegan, flexitarian, etc.) yet there are so few support networks in place for them. We created EFF to act as that missing network. We hope to aid students actively pursuing these diets, to destigmatize cultures presently opposing these diets, and to acquire persons potentially considering sustainable diets.

What do we do?

Our mission is to increase the number of students adopting diets that are not meat-centric in order to reduce our carbon footprint(s). To this end, we do several things.

• We host vegan-friendly, allergy-friendly social events in order to build a strong community such as movies or speed dating.
• We have public tabling events in order to destigmatize alternative diets like Veganism or Vegetarianism.
• We encourage students to reduce their meat intake by 10% rather than eliminate it; we believe this is cumulatively the best strategy to reduce such intake on campus overall.

What are we NOT? 

This is not Vegan club, nor is this Vegetarian club. Although we encourage students to reduce meat intake, we do not implore them to eliminate it. We are not the group for those looking to march naked in the streets against factory farming.

Instead, we are a coalition of normal people, united in the goal of reducing meat intake. In the process, we offer resources to students in the hope of easing the challenges of pursuing alternative diets. EFF was made for regular students, not for any single sectional group.