Ajinomoto Vietnam Co., Ltd., in partnership with Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training and the National Institute of Nutrition, built the technical infrastructure for nutri…

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…

The City of Barcelona and the Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona (ASPB) launched the "Menjadors escolars més sans i sostenibles" (Healthier and More Sustainable School Canteens…

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

Bethsaida Hospital's Cardiology Centre in Tangerang, Indonesia transitioned from conventional procedure-and-drug-centric cardiac care to a model in which a whole-food plant-based …

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 Government of the Canary Islands, through the Instituto Canario de Calidad Agroalimentaria (ICCA) and the regional education department, launched the Ecocomedores Escolares pr…

The Child Care and Learning Centre (CCLC) at the University of Guelph, Ontario, switched to a fully plant-based menu in 2020, removing all meat, dairy, and eggs from its standard …

The City of Toronto's Seniors Services and Long-Term Care division (SSLTC) systematically reduced beef across the menus of its 10 municipally operated long-term care homes, beginn…

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

The City of Copenhagen systematically redesigned food procurement and menus across its municipal nursing homes and central senior kitchen to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25%…

Darebin City Council, in Melbourne's inner north, became the first Australian council to endorse the Plant Based Treaty on 26 June 2024, passing the motion eight votes to one. The…

The Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency (DJI) replaced a price-driven, centrally standardised prison food model with a demand-driven, quality-weighted national procurement framewo…

The City of Edinburgh Council introduced a weekly meat-free day across all Edinburgh public primary schools and a weekly 100% meat-free main meal day in all Edinburgh secondary sc…

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…

Emirates has transitioned its inflight catering from a niche vegan special-meal system — available only on pre-order, segregated from mainstream menus — to a strategic plant-forwa…

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 …

On 18 October 2022, the Freiburg city council voted 27 to 14 to remove meat and fish from all publicly funded meals in municipal nurseries and primary schools and to raise the org…

On 13 May 2009 the City of Ghent officially declared Thursday as Veggie Day — making it the first city in the world to institute an official weekly vegetarian day — and immediatel…

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…

Vegan Outreach India's Green Tuesday Initiative works with companies, universities, pharma manufacturers, and government bodies across India to introduce weekly plant-based days o…

On February 25, 2026, Helsinki City Council voted 57 to 23 to adopt the Half Better (Puolet parempaa) initiative, committing the city to a 50% reduction in municipal procurement o…

The Israel Defense Forces transitioned from a cash stipend model — paying vegan soldiers NIS 292–550 per month to self-provision food — to a system of institutional vegan meal pro…

The Czech Ministry of Health, in partnership with Slow Food Prague, the Czech National Institute of Public Health, and the Czech Gastronomic Institute, initiated a comprehensive r…

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…

KEEKS (Klima- und energieeffiziente Küchen in Schulen — Climate and Energy-Efficient Kitchens in Schools) built the technical and training infrastructure for climate-efficient sch…

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,…

Three major Chinese hotel groups — IHG Hotels and Resorts Greater China, Dossen Hotel Group, and Orange Hotels (Huazhu Group) — adopted group-wide, time-bound policies to shift 30…

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…

Los Angeles County updated its Standards for Prepared Foods, Snacks and Beverages in 2024 to require at least one plant-based entrée at all county food venues, with a recommendati…

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…

Bare Foods Global — a Dubai-based plant-based food company and the official Middle East affiliate of the global Meatless Monday campaign — launched a structured institutional plan…

Milano Ristorazione S.p.A., the municipal company managing school meals for all public kindergartens and primary schools in Milan, redesigned its menus between 2015 and 2018 to el…

Mokita Kinderladen opened in Frankfurt-Bockenheim in August 2018 as Germany's first fully vegan kindergarten, serving approximately 40 children aged three to six. All meals — brea…

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…

New York City public schools — the largest school district in the United States — implemented Meatless Mondays system-wide from the 2019–20 school year and Vegan Fridays (now bran…

Oslo municipality introduced a free, meat-free, and healthy daily school meal for young people across its public school system, targeting 37,000 students across all upper-secondar…

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…

Poland's Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education, signed a binding regulation in February 2026 requiring all public preschools and schools to …

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…

Rochester Institute of Technology achieved 50% plant-based menu offerings across all campus dining in March 2026 — approximately three months ahead of its December 2025 target dea…

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 São Paulo State Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration (SAP) introduced a weekly fully meat-free day — Dia Sem Carne — across its correctional facilities, making the São P…

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-…

Sodexo Campus, the higher-education division of Sodexo North America, expanded plant-based defaults from a three-university randomised controlled trial to approximately 400 US uni…

Sodexo, the contracted food service operator for hundreds of US hospitals, adopted a plant-based default model across its US hospital portfolio in partnership with nonprofit Green…

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…

Royal Decree 315/2025, published in Spain's Official State Gazette on 15 April 2025 and entering into force on 16 April 2026, establishes binding national nutrition and sustainabi…

ProVeg Portugal's Sustainable Meals programme (Prato Sustentável) converted Portugal's Law 11/2017 legal baseline — which mandates one vegan option in all public canteens — into a…

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…

The municipalities of Taichung and Tainan embedded a weekly meat-free day into their respective municipal school lunch regulations, converting a non-binding Ministry of Education …

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…

The Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation operates a network of hospitals across Taiwan that serve exclusively vegetarian, plant-based meals to all inpatients as the institutional s…

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 Strathclyde, Glasgow, removed beef from all campus retail catering outlets in 2020 and subsequently eliminated beef from hospitality menus, culminating in a form…

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 University of Vienna — the largest university in the German-speaking world — introduced a formal procurement policy specifying that newly leased canteen locations will seek ex…

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…

The Veracruz Ministry of Education signed a formal collaboration agreement with Mercy for Animals' Latin American food policy programme Come Consciente on 16 March 2018, committin…

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…

Virgin Atlantic Airways removed beef from economy-class main meals across most routes and replaced unsustainable palm oil with rapeseed oil on Caribbean flights, as part of its Th…

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 …