How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/american-food-giants-swallow-the-family-farms-iowa
Across the midwest, the rise of factory farming is destroying rural communities. And the massive corporations behind this devastation are now eyeing a post-Brexit UK market
Food giants’ claims palm oil does not damage rainforests ’problematic’, say researchers | The Independent
▻https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/palm-oil-food-supply-sustainable-deforestation-indonesia-malaysia-ora
Il faut reconnaître que l’image est assez forte, genre les manifestants à NDDL : dégage !
Food firms cannot claim the palm oil in their products does not destroy rainforests because supply chains are so complex, scientists say.
“No-deforestation” promises printed on packaging could be failing despite the good intentions of manufacturers, according to a report by researchers at Imperial College London.
Palm oil plantations in eastern Asia are blamed for pushing orangutans, Borneo elephants and Sumatran tigers to near-extinction as their rainforest habitats are being continually torn or burned down. The destruction also releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, reduces biodiversity and drives indigenous people from their homelands.
#huile_de_palme #déforestation #accaparement_des_terres #agriculture
Food giants pour millions into defeating Washington GMO label measure
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/29/us-usa-politics-gmo-idUSBRE99S1D020131029
Ils disent que c’est parce qu’ils veulent faire économiser de l’argent aux familles...
... the [Food giants] (...) say (...) they are trying to turn back a measure that would confuse consumers and have numerous consequences.
“It would require tens of thousands of common food and beverage products to be relabeled exclusively for Washington state unless they are remade with higher-priced, specially developed ingredients,” said Brian Kennedy, GMA spokesman. “The measure will increase grocery costs for a typical Washington family by hundreds of dollars per year.”
The outcome of the Washington vote will be closely watched around the country as more than two dozen U.S. states and the federal government wrestle with whether to require labeling.
A similar labeling measure narrowly failed in the 2012 election in California by a vote of 51.4 percent against to 48.6 percent in favor.
En Californie $45 million auraient été dépensés ▻http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelysanders/big-food-spending-millions-to-prevent-gmo-labeling
Colombian ambassador resigns after land grab scam
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/22341
Colombian Ambassador to the United States, Carlos Urrutia, has resigned under a cloud of scandal involving the illegal purchase of protected peasant land holdings by multinational companies facilitated by Urrutia´s law firm, Brigard & Urrutia.
The story was first appeared June when the Wall Street Journal reported the illegal purchases involving US food giant Cargill Inc., Colombian sugar company Riopaila, and Grupo Aval, a financial firm owned by Luis Carlos Sarimiento, a personal friend of President Juan Manuel Santos and owner of El Tiempo, the country´s largest newspaper.
McDonald’s is to close its business in Iceland because the country’s financial crisis has made it too expensive to operate its franchise.
The fast food giant said its three outlets in the country would shut – and that it had no plans to return.
Sources : multiples