Vital Farms releases its 2024 Impact Update
Vital Farms released a 2024 Impact Update, describing its results-driven approach to improving the lives of people, animals, and the planet through food.
Matt O'Hayer, Founder
SJF Impact
Sustainable
Products and
Systems
SJF invests in companies that support shifting consumer preferences toward more sustainable, ethical, and transparent production. These companies realize focusing on multiple stakeholders, both people and planet, leads to more sustainable business growth.
Our Strategy in Sustainable Products
and Systems
SJF invests in products and systems designed to minimize the negative impacts on our climate and natural resources. SJF believes sustainability is further enhanced through thoughtful consideration of the interests and wellbeing of multiple constituents, including consumers, workers, local and global environments, partners, and suppliers.
While much of SJF’s investment activity in this area has focused on food systems – which have substantial impact potential for the environment, consumer health, worker economics, and beyond – other areas of interest and investment have included sustainable packaging, personal care products, office product design, and IoT devices.
Pop quiz
What percent of plastic waste is sent to a landfill in the US?
Answer: 73%.
~73% of annual plastic waste ends up in a landfill. Packaging is the largest contributor to plastic waste.
Our Impact Objectives in this Sector
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1Promote More Sustainable Products
Promote the production of goods that require fewer carbon emissions, generate less plastic waste and other pollutants, and preserve our land and water systems.
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2Enable Healthy and Ethical Food Systems
Make clean, natural, and nutritious food more widely available. Encourage transparent systems and animal welfare.
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3Encourage Fair Labor and Trade Practices
Support businesses that implement ethical labor practices among agricultural and manufacturing workers and maintain fair supplier and downstream labor practices.
SJF quickly understood why consumers love pasture-raised eggs and why the principles of conscious capitalism are core to what we do. That helped us to select SJF as our first institutional investor.”
Impact Highlights
75,638,643
pounds of CO2
mitigated by TemperPack customers by choosing ClimaCell over EPS
50,000
acres of farmland
converted to efficient drip irrigation by BB Hobbs at the time at SJF’s exit
>275
independent family farms
supported with expert advice and fair pay in Vital Farms’ supplier network at the time of exit; over 300 today
>887,000
connected consumer IoT devices
in HVAC, energy, and resource efficiency in 2023
Sustainable Products and Consumption Spotlights
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TemperPack releases 2023 Impact Report
TemperPack has diverted over 12,000 MT of single-use plastic packaging from landfills.
TemperPack partners with Caroline’s Cakes
TemperPack partners with Caroline’s Cakes’ to meet consumer demand for eliminating Styrafoam in delivery
ROOM partners with One Tree Planted
ROOM partners with One Tree Planted to plant 40,000 trees for landscape reforestation in 2024.
Vital Farms wins FOOD ENGINEERING’s 2023 Sustainable Plant of the Year
Vital Farms hatched a plan to create a model of sustainability for Egg Central Station, which is why it’s FOOD ENGINEERING’s 2023 Sustainable Plant of the Year.
