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June 24, 2009

Chipotle to open in Columbia Mall

Why is this green? The fast food chain is moving toward sustainably farmed food and architecture. Chipotle is not 100 percent, manager say. But considering the environmental, labor and health records of other chains, maybe it deserves a look.

The chain strives to buy pork, chicken and beef that is humanely raised and fed vegetarian diets with no hormones or antibiotics added. Sour cream and cheeses are from hormone free milk and a quarter of the black and pinto beans are organically grown.

Chipotle is trying to buy a third of at least one produce item at each restaurant from small and mid-sized farms.

The Chipotle opens at the Mall in Columbia June 30. There are 13 other locations in the area. 

But does it taste good?

Baltimore Sun photo of a Chipotle chicken fajita burrito/Lloyd Fox 

 

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Tim WheelerTim Wheeler reports on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, he has focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, he's crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. He loves seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. He hopes to share some here.

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