Dear Global Corporation,

I am writing to join the flood of consumers and investors demanding your corporation guarantee its beef products are deforestation-free.

The latest report from the Union of Concerned Scientists reveals that your company lacks sufficient policies and practices to ensure you are not purchasing beef linked to forest destruction. Tropical deforestation releases 10 percent of destructive global warming emissions. It also threatens the two-thirds of land species that live in forests, and the livelihoods of the one billion people who depend on these forests.

The good news is your company can help make a difference and end this destruction. To help break the link between deforestation and beef your company should:

• adopt a global zero-deforestation beef purchasing policy and release an implementation plan with interim time-bound goals;
• trace and monitor your entire supply chain for deforestation on all supplying ranches in all forested areas in South America at risk of conversion for pastureland expansion;
• report publicly on your implementation and verification practices, including sharing results of third-party audits to verify zero-deforestation practices; and
• buy only from suppliers that have adopted public zero-deforestation policies and are implementing these practices for all of their global operations.

Help us transform the industry to meet a new deforestation-free standard today.

Sincerely,

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