Cargill customers cancel with Sinar Mas while Cargill continues to support rainforest destruction
Nestle, the world’s largest food and beverage company, has become the latest major multinational to cancel their palm oil contract with Sinar Mas, one of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates and a…
Cargill leaves a palm oil mess in Papua New Guinea
Cargill Inc., the world’s largest agribusiness company, has announced the sale of their palm oil plantations in the remote tropical nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Cargill owns mills and…
Kids Tell General Mills: ♥ Have a Heart ♥
On Monday, February 15, a dozen activists and several kids with Rainforest Action Network’s rockin’ Twin Cities chapter visited General Mills’ Golden Valley Headquarters with a very special Valentine’s Day…
General Mills shares your concerns about palm oil. Why is RAN picking on them?
Thanks for taking action after we alerted you that General Mills products contain rainforest destruction. Nearly 8,000 of you took action by sending a letter to General Mills about your…
Unfurling Minnesota’s Demand: Protect Rainforests
“Can you imagine sitting down to breakfast with your Cheerios and then reading this in the newspaper?” Well, don’t choke, but you deserve to know that one of America’s most well…
Warning: General Mills Destroys Rainforests
My alarm went off at 6:15am this morning and the excitement of butterflies in my stomach reminded me that the launch date had finally arrived! After four hours of sleep…
RSPO Dispatch: Cargill’s message to local communities – We have no time for you
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was founded to create a path towards sustainability in the palm oil industry. A voluntary process, oil palm producers, traders, buyers, and NGO’s…
RSPO Dispatch: Oil palm is not development
The RSPO is the world’s largest annual meeting of oil palm industry, environmentalists, human rights advocates, and, most importantly, community members. Today, I watched as a community member from Borneo…
Commodity Colonialism – Oil Palm development in Papua New Guinea
A new, hard hitting, RAN case study on Cargill’s oil palm operations in PNG, ‘Commodity Colonialism’, is now available for download HERE. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a nation that…
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally…. A week in the Twin Cities with Matilda Pilacapio
It isn’t every day that you get go on speaking tour in Minneapolis/St. Paul with a delegate from Papua New Guinea. Or to meet activists and students in a city…