Without the financing of American soy traders like Cargill and Bunge, and companies like Stop & Shop, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Sysco – deforestation of the Amazon would be far less severe.
Now, with the Amazon in flames, these companies must take responsibility for the impacts of their products and stop financing this reckless environmental destruction.
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To: President Gordon Reid, Stop & Shop, and CEO Frans Muller, Ahold Delhaize
From: [Your Name]
Dear President Gordon Reid and CEO Frans Muller,
With the Amazon in flames, your company must take responsibility for the impacts of your products and stop financing this reckless environmental destruction.
As one of the largest and, therefore, influential supermarkets in the world, Stop & Shop must end its partnership with Cargill, the largest trader of soy from Brazil, and to call on President Bolsonaro to reinstate protections for the Amazon!
STOP & SHOP
&
AHOLD DELHAIZE
Contact Ahold Delhaize:
Provincialeweg 11
1506 MA Zaandam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 88 659 9111
COSTCO
Our planet can’t wait any longer. Tell Costco to drop contracts with meat suppliers that are destroying rainforests and polluting our waters.
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Contact Costco Corporate Offices
Costco Wholesale
P.O. Box 34331
Seattle, WA 98124
425-313-8100 Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. PT.
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Call Customer Care on 1 (800) 774-2678
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Email Customer Care on customerservice@costco.com
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Tweet Costco
To: Costco CEO Craig Jelinek
From: [Your Name]
Stop funding environmental destruction. As one of the nation’s largest supermarket chains, Costco has a major influence over the food we have access to and how it was produced. Customers trust Costco to deliver high quality food from responsible suppliers. Although Costco claims to care about customer sustainability concerns, your supply chain tells a different story.
Costco meat comes from some of the most environmentally destructive suppliers in the entire food industry—Cargill, JBS, and Tyson Foods. Cargill and JBS played lead roles in driving the devastating fires in the Amazon last summer, and all three are responsible for widespread water pollution, soil erosion, and runaway climate emissions.
Every contract Costco signs with these destructive companies condemns future generations to a world of climate chaos and broken ecosystems. But you have the power to change that through more responsible business practices.
Our planet can't wait any longer. I urge Costco to immediately drop all contracts with meat suppliers that are destroying rainforests and polluting our waters, and instead use Costco’s economic power to shift our food system toward regenerative farming practices that protect our forests, climate, water, and health.
To: Cargill CEO David MacLennan
From: [Your Name]
Stop funding environmental destruction. Cargill has only gotten away with its bad behavior for so long because it is not a consumer-facing brand. But we know now the food at Cargill's customers, McDonald’s, Stop & Shop, & Target is destroying the rainforests and has been produced with child slavery. We will not keep quiet.
Cargill and JBS played lead roles in driving the devastating fires in the Amazon last summer, and are responsible for widespread water pollution, soil erosion, and runaway climate emissions.
Indigenous peoples who depend on forests have had their land encroached upon by Cargill-linked soy plantations in Brazil. They have been forced off of their traditional lands and have experienced sharp increases in cancer, birth defects, miscarriages, and other illnesses linked to pesticides and herbicides used to grow soy – often sprayed by planes directly overhead.
Our planet can't wait any longer. I urge Cargill to immediately drop all contracts with soy suppliers that are destroying rainforests and polluting our waters, and instead use Cargill's economic power to shift our food system toward regenerative farming practices that protect our forests, climate, water, and health.
CARGILL
Contact Cargill Corporate Offices
Cargill, Incorporated
PO Box 9300
Minneapolis, MN
55440-9300
United States
800-227-4455 (English)
The film is far from the end goal. True impact and lasting change in the Amazon region for its land, people, and communities, both human and nonhuman, is the ultimate objective.
The solutions are within reach, it is possible to change our direction
and move toward them.
Beyond the films, we will also be actively engaging with the public through the following ways:
WORLDWIDE
DISTRIBUTION
We are strategically timing the release of Through The Smoke during the Amazon's fire season in 2021. In addition we will be focusing on educational distribution and providing an empowering curriculum to reach the hearts of students.
ENGAGEMENT
WITH INFLUENCERS
Continuing our mission of gathering thought leaders, scientists and indigenous representatives, we will host more online public discussions and focus groups to educate and inspire action from our audience.
IMPACT EVENTS &
DIRECT ACTIVISM
We will host public screenings and community discussions to build new and support existing environmental groups, empowering them with ways to impact on a local level as well as providing valuable resources.
EDUCATIONAL WEB PORTAL
Our Web Portal will consist of a library of peer-reviewed information, organized and represented thoughtfully with data visualization. It will also include avenues to become involved in our mission and a community forum to connect individuals and organizations alike.