Four hospitals within Singapore's National University Health System (NUHS) progressively introduced plant-based patient meal options from 2018. Alexandra Hospital became the first…

On 8 April 2025, twelve major Amsterdam institutions signed a covenant committing collectively to serve at least 60% plant-based protein in their catering operations, alongside ta…

Studierendenwerk Berlin — the student services organisation that operates canteens across Berlin's universities — transformed its 18 canteens from a predominantly meat-based to a …

The University of Cambridge implemented a Sustainable Food Policy from 2017 and launched CamEATS ZERO in February 2024, targeting more than 50% plant-based meals across all 31 col…

The City of Copenhagen transformed the food served across approximately 900 public kitchens — preschools, schools, elderly care homes, social institutions, and staff canteens — to…

France enacted two pieces of national legislation that progressively extended the legal requirement for vegetarian meals across its public canteen system. EGalim (Law no. 2018-938…

Erasmus University Rotterdam implemented plant-based food change through three distinct and stackable mechanisms over five years. First, a faculty-level default switch making all …

Eurest, the workplace catering division of Compass Group UK & Ireland and the UK's largest workplace caterer, undertook a systematic programme to increase the plant-based proporti…

From autumn 2018, every garrison canteen across the Finnish Defence Forces began serving two fully vegetarian meals per week — one lunch and one dinner on separate days — replacin…

Food for Education (F4E), a social enterprise founded by Wawira Njiru in 2012, built the largest locally-led school feeding programme in Africa — growing from 25 meals per day at …

Four small municipalities in Bahia, Brazil — Barroca, Biritinga, Serrinha, and Teofilândia — partnered with HSI Brazil to progressively reduce animal-source ingredients in school …

The Guru Ramdas Langar Hall at Sri Harmandir Sahib — the Golden Temple in Amritsar — is one of the world's largest community kitchens, serving approximately 100,000 free vegetaria…

JOIA Aruba by Iberostar, a luxury resort on Eagle Beach in Aruba and part of the IHG Hotels and Resorts portfolio, transitioned from fewer than 5% plant-based menu offerings acros…

New Zealand launched Ka Ora, Ka Ako (meaning "when you are well, you can learn") in 2020 — a funded daily school lunch programme serving 242,000 students across 1,013 schools, bui…

Between 2020 and May 2021, LEOC Executive Chef Hitoshi Sugiura personally visited more than 1,000 institutional canteens across Japan — nursing homes, offices, factories, schools,…

Lewisham Council made plant-based food the default at all council-run corporate events and embedded an additional weekly meat-free day into the school catering contract specificat…

The City of Malmö implemented a sustainable food policy across all municipal food services — preschools, schools, elderly care facilities, and staff canteens — targeting reduced m…

Sodexo UK & Ireland, in partnership with Greener by Default, redesigned the patient and staff menus across all 35 Nuffield Health hospitals to make plant-based options the default…

NYC Health + Hospitals — the largest public hospital system in the United States — made plant-based meals the primary option for patient lunches and dinners across all 11 of its a…

Oxford City Council passed a unanimous motion to make all internal council catering fully plant-based. All food served at council meetings, events, and internal functions is now p…

In March 2017, Portugal became the first country in the world to pass national legislation requiring public canteens to provide a daily vegan meal option. The law applies across s…

ProVeg UK built and operates School Plates — the UK's only dedicated national programme supporting school caterers to shift school meals toward more plant-rich options. Since 2018…

The municipal school system of Salvador, Bahia — Brazil's third-largest city — partnered with Humane Society International Brazil and Alimentação Consciente Brasil (Mercy for Anim…

The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education introduced Climate-Friendly Meal Days — a city-wide policy requiring all Seoul public schools to serve plant-forward vegetarian or near-…

Southampton Students' Union voted to make all SU-operated catering plant-based by default from the 2026/27 academic year, following a student petition and a formal SU council vote…

Sustainable Play Preschool in Barnsley, NSW opened in 2021 as Australia's first fully plant-based early learning service — 100% vegan from day one, with all meals and snacks prepa…

A five-week randomised controlled pilot at three US universities — Tulane, Lehigh, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — demonstrated that positioning plant-based meals as the de…

ESS, the Defence, Marine and Aerospace catering subsidiary of Compass Group UK & Ireland, redesigned its core military menu to make 30% of all lunch and dinner dishes plant-forwar…

UBC Food Services progressively shifted UBC Vancouver campus dining from approximately 20% plant-based menu items to 55%, with a stated target of 80% by 2025. The change was led i…

The University of North Texas opened Mean Greens Café in 2011 — the first fully vegan dining hall at a US university. From that single pilot location, the university progressively…

The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), in partnership with HSI Africa through its Green Monday South Africa programme, launched a Green Menu across all six residence dining h…

The United States Department of Agriculture updated the meal pattern requirements for federally reimbursed school meals, effective July 2024. The update made it significantly easi…

Vancouver General Hospital ran a six-month Planetary Health Menu Pilot from late 2023 to March 2024, developing more than 20 new plant-forward inpatient menu items in collaboratio…

In early 2023, the Victorian Department of Health launched the Good Food Policy across all Victorian Government departments, requiring that all food and drinks ordered for interna…

Waldfriede Hospital in Berlin established Pauls Kitchen — a central production kitchen operating on EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet principles — to supply plant-forward meals to …