● Border Grill Downtown LA serves only sustainable seafood,
as part of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program. It’s
our mission to make lesser known, delicious, sustainable seafood
like Arctic char, black cod, and barramundi as appealing as
perennial favorites like salmon. As part of the Seafood Watch
program, Border Grill Downtown LA distributes pocket seafood
guides to customers.
● Border Grill Downtown LA developed a program called
"Good for
the Planet, Good for You" giving guests the opportunity
to choose dishes made with at least 80% plant-based ingredients.
Because 18% of greenhouse gas emissions come from
livestock--more than from transportation--and Americans eat
about twice as much of the daily protein recommended by the
USDA, Border Grill Downtown LA is encouraging guests to get meat
out of the center of the plate and build the meal around
vegetables, grains, beans, salads, and fruit.
● Border Grill Downtown LA does not serve swordfish or
most species of tuna, working with Oceana, a leading
international conservation organization, in their Stop Seafood
Contamination campaign. Oceana aims to reduce the amount of
mercury released into the environment, as well as educate the
public about the risks of consuming fish with high mercury
levels. As part of Oceana’s campaign, Border Grill Downtown LA
agreed to remove swordfish and most tuna from its menus because
of high mercury content. (After much research, we recently
decided to occasionally serve albacore tuna as a low-mercury
alternative to high-mercury bluefin, bigeye, and yellowfin
tunas)
● Border Grill Downtown LA does not serve Canadian
seafood. After joining the Humane Society’s “Protect Seals”
Campaign, Border Grill Downtown LA took a pledge to boycott
Canadian seafood products until Canada ends its commercial seal
hunt.
● Border Grill Downtown LA uses the Natura water
purification system, instead of bottled water transported
from around the world. The reusable glass bottles provide an
environmentally-friendly alternative to the waste associated
with the manufacture, transport, and disposal of conventional
bottled water.
● Border Grill Downtown LA uses organic long-grain
rice and black beans, as well as beef, lamb, and uncured pork
raised without hormones and antibiotics. We use
seasonal, locally grown ingredients whenever possible and do not
use any products containing artificial trans fat.
