Preview: Good Eats? Investigating Sodexo Food Group
Harley Woods | February 24, 2022
Everyone must eat. As the animated raccoon, RJ, in DreamWorks’ 2006 film “Over The Hedge” points out, food is wrapped up in everything that humans do.
In an age of growing technology and national or international food providers, the question of where food comes from has become equally as important as what food one chooses to eat.
Gladfelter Dining Hall, located at the center of Warren Wilson College (WWC) campus, is the main source of food for a majority of students. During the fall 2021 semester, students began to organize and ask questions about where their food comes from.
An investigative article will be released after spring break (Feb. 28 to Mar. 4) providing more information about the food distributor giant, Sodexo Food Group (SFG), and its complicated role amid the WWC community.
The most recent news regarding food on campus occurred when students took to the WWC social media app and made three separate accounts. One, named Gladfelter Dining Hall, was made as a satirical account falsely representing the cafeteria. The other two, WWC food sovereignty 1 and 2, seek to spread information to the student population about SFG.
Stay alert for news regarding SFG and food initiatives on campus in two weeks to come. Anyone who would like to provide additional testimony or information regarding nutrition on campus should contact The Echo writer Harley Woods at hwoods.f19@warren-wilson.edu.
Thumbnail from Reuters, taken by Gonzalo Fuentes.