VakeWorks Transparency Pledge

Eat the change you want to be!

Through its radically transparent food networks, VakeWorks offers a range of top quality, natural products that can be consumed in good conscience.

VakeWorks guarantees, through its contracts, the following transparencies to our customers, so that they can eat the change they want to be.

1. Income Transparency

       = Who is making how much money from what you are eating?

• We provide a verifiable pie chart for consumers to quickly see who gets what allocation of the total price. We believe our customers should understand WHY the price of our products is what it is. Our goal is to ensure fair compensation to all parties involved, especially farmers.

2. Produce Transparency

       = Who is growing your food, and, where, when and how are they growing it?

• Part of the VakeWorks ethos is to connect growers to consumers. We believe that consumers should know exactly where their food comes from, so each product is geo-located and identified down to the farm and farmer levels. VakeWorks holds its producers to the highest standards, demanding zero synthetics or adulteration; our farmers use a combination of traditional, organic-level and high-tech competitive technologies when appropriate. Everything we offer has a completely transparent backstory, available for anyone to explore.

3. Process Transparency

       = Who is processing your food and how are they processing it?

• All our processes are available so that customers know who is performing what task, and how. This helps consumers to understand the ‘hidden’ benefits to choosing our products over ‘conventional’ ones. Sometimes this can mean keeping a rare-breed of pig or cow alive, supporting an ancient Swedish agro-forestry technique of raising pigs and cows in pastures and forests, sourcing spices from forest tribes in Kerala, or traditional air-drying of charcuterie in a pristine Swedish mountain village over three months as opposed to fan-drying for few days or weeks in controlled environments.

4. Profits Transparency

       = How are the profits distributed?.

• In a fair world, profit is nothing to be ashamed of! Part of our profits are used to further improve transparent value chains so that everyone involved from farmers to consumers and not merely shareholders can see how the profits are distributed.

5. Ecological Transparency

       = How are ecological relations affected by what you are eating?

• Without making a positive ecological impact, there is no future! So everything we do is driven by the desire to improve One Health, i.e., the health of soils, microbes, plants, animals, people, ecosystems and the planet, with every bite of food. We accomplish this by enhancing biodiversity, ensuring sustainable and regenerative processes, and ethical treatment of our animals so they have a healthy and happy life. Healthy soils with healthy microbes produce healthy plants and animals resulting in highly nutritious and healthy food to the consumer and thereby improving the health of the planet one bite at a time.