RAN Issues Statement in Response to False Palm Oil Claims by Cargill

Last week, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) contacted Cargill employees in over 20 countries to alert them to the company’s ties to rainforest destruction and orangutan extinction. The email urged employees to watch a recent eye-opening prime time NBC news story profiling the imminent extinction of orangutans due to unchecked palm oil expansion in Indonesia and [...]

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Cargill’s New Palm Oil Deal for Unilever: Can It Be Called Sustainable?

The growing international focus on companies that produce, trade, or use palm oil is quickly separating out the market leaders, like Unilever and Nestle, from companies that are taking an active role in adopting policies to safeguard their climate footprint, from the rainforest destroyers (i.e. Cargill and General Mills).

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