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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We have an opportunity to make 2016 the Year of Gun Safety. And thanks to supporters like you, we’re making big waves in Nevada and Maine — the two states with background check initiatives on the ballot this election.
Our movement has stepped up in a big way. Each dollar supporters like you gave to these crucial fights means more voters will hear our message — so thank you.
Folks from South Burlington to Toledo to The Woodlands chipped in to support efforts in these battleground states — and those funds have already made a huge impact in both of these on-the-ground fights.
Gun sense supporters from across the country contacted over 40,000 voters in Nevada, and local volunteers have already collected more than 5,500 pledges from voters who will support the background check initiative.
In Maine, grassroots supporters from around the state have already recruited over 5,000 voters to sign pledges to vote for this common-sense initiative this November.
All this is making the NRA pretty nervous! Why? When gun safety measures are on the ballot, we win. And these victories will prove that the gun lobby can bully politicians all they want — but they can’t bully the American people.
Thank you so much again for helping us fuel these important fights.
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claims were ever made. The only reason is because when corporations like Chevron are committed to throwing billions of dollars at fighting justice instead of accepting responsibility, they often are able to delay (and thus deny) justice in perpetuity. For the sake of justice everywhere, this must end here and now.
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