{"id":1730,"date":"2010-11-16T11:38:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheeseloverca.wordpress.com\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2010-11-16T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:38:52","slug":"fifth-town-recognized-for-excellence-in-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/2010\/11\/16\/fifth-town-recognized-for-excellence-in-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Town recognized for excellence in sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1733\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/px_cl_ft_petra_gftc-1.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1730]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1733\" title=\"px_cl_ft_petra_gftc\" src=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/px_cl_ft_petra_gftc-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/px_cl_ft_petra_gftc-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/px_cl_ft_petra_gftc-1-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petra Cooper, founder and president of Fifth Town Artisan Cheese, accepts Corporate Social Responsibility recognition from Lloyd Hipel, project manager, Enviro-Stewards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>For a woman dedicated to artisan cheesemaking\u2014who famously chucked a high-level career in publishing to pursue her passion for cheese, it must have been a particularly sweet moment to learn that her tiny creamery beat out giant Kraft Canada for a prestigious national award.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Petra Cooper of Fifth Town Artisan Cheese was honored at a gala event hosted by Guelph Food Technology Centre (GFTC) to celebrate leadership in sustainability among food and beverage processing facilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The November 4 event signalled the release of key findings from a GFTC research project, \u201cRaising the Bar for Sustainability Performance in Ontario\u2019s Food and Beverage Processing Industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthtown.ca\/\">Fifth Town Artisan Cheese<\/a>, located in Ontario\u2019s Prince Edward County, won the recognition plaque for the most prestigious overall category, Corporate Social Responsibility.\u00a0 Cher Mereweather, director of GFTC\u2019s sustainability consulting business unit, says what makes the win so impressive is that a small facility has been able to excel at incorporating sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith fewer than 20 employees, Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Co. demonstrated that corporate social responsibility can be done well at any size,\u201d says Mereweather.<\/p>\n<p>Other facilities that were nominated in this category were Kraft Canada Inc. in Scarborough, Ontario; Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. in Windsor, Ontario; and Cargill Value Added Meats \u2013 Foodservice Canada in London, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gftc.ca\">Guelph Food Technology Centre<\/a> is a world leader in food industry solutions, helping companies along the entire food value chain compete globally by strengthening the very foundations of their business: their products, processes and people. Each year, GFTC assists more than 1,500 companies, providing confidential services in food safety and quality consulting and auditing, training, product development, packaging, labeling and sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a woman dedicated to artisan cheesemaking\u2014who famously chucked a high-level career in publishing to pursue her passion for cheese, it must have been a particularly sweet moment to learn that her tiny creamery beat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,155,205],"tags":[],"brand":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-fifth-town-artisan-cheese","category-guelph-food-technology-centre"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}