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Supporting Statement:
The report should address relevant policies, practices, metrics and goals on topics such as: greenhouse gas
emissions, pesticide use management, waste minimization, energy efficiency, labor standards and practices, and
other relevant environmental and social impacts.
We recommend Chipotle consider using the GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines to prepare the report.
The GRI is an international organization developed with representatives from business, environmental, human
rights and labor communities. The Guidelines cover environmental impacts, labor practices, human rights,
product responsibility, and community impacts. The Guidelines provide a flexible reporting system which allows
the omission of content irrelevant to company operations.
We also recommend Chipotle consider drawing on the expertise of the Equitable Food Initiative (EFI). The
EFI is a collaborative effort of retailers, workers and growers focused on reducing risks in food supply chains. Its
standard was adapted to reduce duplication of other industry-leading certifications and has attracted Costco and
Bon Appetit as project partners.
Statement in Opposition by our Board of Directors
Through our constant efforts to expand our Food with Integrity mission, we believe Chipotle is driving more
positive change in the nation’s food supply than any other restaurant company. Today, we serve more meat that
has been raised responsibly (by which we mean from animals raised in a humane way, and never given
antibiotics or added hormones) than any other restaurant company. We are the only national restaurant company
with a significant stated commitment to serving local and organically grown produce. We believe we were the
first national restaurant company to serve dairy products (cheese and sour cream) made only with milk from
cows that are not treated with the synthetic hormone rBGH. We are increasingly serving dairy products made
with milk from pasture-raised dairy cattle. And in 2013 we became the first national restaurant company to
voluntarily identify all ingredients in our food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
While numerous companies have published reports of the type being advocated in this shareholder proposal,
Chipotle has made a deliberate decision not to do so, preferring to devote our resources instead to actually taking
actions and adopting practices that we believe will have a positive impact on the sustainability of our business. In
this way, our commitment to Food with Integrity directly impacts many of the issues associated with sustainable
agriculture—from the humane treatment of farm animals, to overuse of antibiotics on animals, pesticide use, the
welfare of workers, environmental degradation and beyond.
As just a few examples of our accomplishments that we believe have positively impacted the environmental
footprint and overall sustainability of our business:
• Over 140 million pounds of meat we purchased in 2013—representing over 90% of our meat
purchases—adhered to the standards we require for our Responsibly Raised®brand (coming from
animals that are raised in a humane way, and never given antibiotics or added hormones).
• We purchased over 20 million pounds of local produce in 2013 (by which we mean produce grown or
raised within 350 miles of the restaurant at which it was served). This was an increase of 22% from the
18 million pounds of local produce we purchased in 2012. All of our fresh produce items, with the
exception of limes, were included in our local program in 2013.
• We purchased over 4.5 million pounds of organic black beans and over 2.0 million pounds of organic
pinto beans in 2013, and we also supported the growth of organic farms by purchasing approximately
400,000 pounds of transitional-acreage black beans from growers undergoing conversion to organic
certified land. We also purchased over 3.0 million pounds of Food Alliance certified black beans and
over 1.0 million pounds of Food Alliance certified pinto beans in 2013.
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