Wake Up, ADM, Bunge, and Cargill!
This morning the RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness campaign officially launched with a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune, holding the agribusiness giants responsible for warming our planet for corporate profit.
From Indonesia to Brazil, Paraguay to Papua New Guinea, US agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge, and Cargill have been involved in the clearing of pristine tropical rainforests for monocrop soy and palm oil plantations, violently displacing local and indigenous communities, and contributing to global warming through the burning of forests and peat swamps across the world.
Ironically, these companies are destroying forests in the name of solving the global warming crisis through biofuel expansion. ADM, Bunge, and Cargill would like us to believe that we can maintain our car addiction using a carbon neutral process—growing plants to fuel our cars. Not a chance. These companies clear pristine forests, burn the remaining stumps, drain peat swamps, and transport the fuel crops around the world for our cars. Hardly a carbon neutral process. In fact, Indonesia and Brazil are the third and fourth largest emitters of greenhouse gases due primarily to the burning of forests.
It’s time that we held these companies responsible for their hypocrisy in warming our planet for biofuel profits. Send an email to the CEOs of ADM, Bunge and Cargill to urge them to stop destroying rainforests for biofuels, stop displacing communities, and stop trading our climate for profit.
Other resources:
- Check out the Rainforest Agribusiness section of RAN.org
- Read case studies for ADM, Bunge and Cargill
- Watch our campaign video
2 Responses to “Wake Up, ADM, Bunge, and Cargill!”
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November 7th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Gentlemen,
I urge you to put desire for profits aside. You know the burning of rainforests is not a solution. Stop burning rainforests for the excuse of growing biofuels.
-Jacob Crawford
December 4th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Please look to the future, think of your kids, think of our planet, profits are one thing, but greed only gets you so far until it ends in tragedy, and in this case tragedy on a global scale, once the forests have gone, thats it, no turning back.
Why go further and further into primary forest when you could work to use the land already there? Im afraid the public are wising up, they do not want food that is produced this way. Put on your glasses and become less short sighted.