The Fate of Orangutans Is in Cargill’s Hands
Would you expect to get shot over 100 times in your own neighborhood? Probably not, but that’s what recently happened to a female orangutan when an agribusiness giant decided to…
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…
Big Questions Remain after Palm Oil Summit
After two days at the tenth annual meeting of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), I had just about given up on hearing anything controversial. The RSPO is a…
Alert! Desperate Orangutans Spotted Panhandling in Minnesota
A small population of homeless Sumatran orangutans has reportedly been panhandling near the headquarters of agribusiness giant Cargill on the outskirts of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It seems these distraught red apes…
Tell Cargill: Keep Corporate Influence Out of Science
Two weeks ago, the mainstream media caught fire with a Stanford study questioning the benefits of organic foods. It turns out the anti-organics study may have the fingerprints of agribusiness…
Meet the TPP: A Worldwide Corporate Power Grab of Enormous Proportions
As international trade negotiators gathered this week at a posh golf resort in rural Virginia to hammer out details of the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), they sought to project…
Stop ‘NAFTA on steroids’!
We just got word that a round of closed door negotiations will begin this week for the largest free trade agreement in history. We are talking about NAFTA on steroids—an…
Cargill’s Not so Secret Expansion Plans in Indonesia
If Cargill’s PR stunt a few months ago left you feeling confused about the company’s role in driving deforestation and potential orangutan extinction in Indonesia, you might find it helpful…
Cargill Admits Buying Palm Oil from Illegally Cleared Orangutan Habitat
Last week, Cargill admitted to doing business with a very dodgy plantation company in Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) that has illegally cleared thousands of hectares of orangutan habitat — and…
Cargill Needs to Come Clean: Demand Transparency
With palm oil in half of all products for sale in US grocery stores, we have the right to know the true cost of its production. Cargill is the #1…