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Members Speak About FTSLA’s Benefits

Nature’s Path, 2009 Sustainability Report
“We’re challenged daily to find new ways to embody sustainability — to go “Beyond Organic." Recognizing there were others with the same burning desire to effect change, we sought out trade associations and joined the Food Trade Sustainability Leadership Association (FTSLA). The FTSLA helps provide organic food trade businesses with guidelines and recommendations to run their businesses in more ecologically sound and socially responsible ways. They spent years gathering input from organic growers, distributors, processors, retailers, and certifiers in order to come up with their action plan called the ‘Declaration of Sustainability in the Organic Food Trade.’ The Declaration is an “aspirational” pledge that encourages companies to voluntarily work toward best practices in sustainability in various areas. More than just a sustainability report card, the plan helps companies find ways to improve their practices and encourages the organic food trade to inspire, challenge, and support each other in our efforts to make positive changes in our products and our planet.”

Frontier Natural Products Co-op, 2009 Sustainability Report
“Frontier Natural Products Co-op—as a member of the Food Trade Sustainability Leadership Association (FTSLA)—is a signatory to the group’s “Declaration of Sustainability in the Organic Food Trade.” Prior to signing the declaration, Frontier had committed to producing a bi-annual sustainability report and interim updates in the years we do not publish a full report. Our first report followed, as much as was practical, certain international reporting standards. While this was useful in many ways, there were also a number of areas in the standards that were not relevant to our company or didn’t capture some essential sustainability issues important to the natural and organic food and personal care industry. Aligning our reporting with FTSLA requirements helps us and other companies in our industry to establish common metrics and benchmarks that will help all of us to become more sustainable.”

Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative, 2009 Sustainability Report
“In August of 2008, Organic Valley joined with 18 mission-aligned companies in the organic and natural food industry to pledge our commitment to continual improvement in 11 areas of sustainability: organic, climate change, energy, distribution, labor, packaging, water, waste, animal care, consumer education, and governance. The partnership is unique in that these businesses are industry competitors who have come together on an issue that is vital to us all: sustainability. In this non-threatening cooperative venture, these trend-setting businesses have engaged in a dialogue in which they’ve established the 11 areas on which businesses must report (though not all at once). From this baseline, they will work together so that all group members will be able to report on their sustainability performance and share and compare resources and results along the way.”

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