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
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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)
THROUGH THE SMOKE
A Feature Documentary
WE ARE AT A CRITICAL MOMENT
Recent spikes in fires and deforestation coupled with dangerous increases in global temperature leave the Amazon Rainforest, an incomparable force of climate stability, rainfall and carbon storage, at risk of being lost forever. Add to the mix a government administration deadset on developing extractive industries, no matter the cost, and we are left in crisis.
Through the Smoke, the feature documentary, is a deep dive into the issues at the heart of this crisis. The film is central to the One Amazon Impact Campaign which includes a series of short films, fundraising events, and an extensive, educational online portal. This project is much more than a feature film.
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THROUGH THE SMOKE
A Feature Documentary
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