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Join the Race to Save Rainforests And Orangutans: Earn a Renegade Merit Badge!
Palm Oil operations are destroying orangutan habitat This post is by Girl Scouts Madison Vorva (age 16) and Rhiannon Tomtishen (age 15), who have been campaigning to get palm oil out of Girl Scout...
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Cargill Losing Minnesota Community Support Over Rainforest Destruction
Activists chat with Wayzata, MN residents on September 10-11 at the annunal J. J. Hill parade. If a place exists where Cargill has spent the time and resources to look as proper as the front row of a...
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Palm Oil’s Dirty Secret: The Many Ingredient Names For Palm Oil
Click to view full-size infographic Did you see the palm oil infographic we released today? I hope so! If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out. Were you shocked to find out that palm oil is in half of...
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Is It Time To Occupy Cargill?
As the largest privately-owned corporation in the United States, Cargill is a classic example of too much power in the hands of too few, and a disturbing indicator of how corporate greed literally...
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Cargill’s Pinkwashing Attempt Backfires At Fancy Luncheon
Katie Burgess, Executive Director of Minneapolis-based Trans Youth Support Network, calls out Cargill's absuvie labor and environmental history. Photo Credit: Taylor Foster Katie Burgess, executive...
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The Human Cost Of Palm Oil Expansion
“Before we had a happy life,” Ms. Gaong said she tells her grandchildren. “Now it’s a difficult life. There’s nothing left for them.” The future of these children remains at stake until the companies...
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RSPO Missing Persons Report
Update 11/25/11 10:08am Despite key commitments to work with the RSPO to meet consumer demands, several key RSPO members are missing at this year’s RSPO meeting in Sabah, Malaysia. Has anyone recently...
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RAN Staff Finds Deforestation And Violence For Palm Oil Unchecked By The RSPO
RAN sent a delegation of four staff to lobby for human rights and rainforest protections at the 9th Annual RSPO Meeting in Malaysia. As the 9thAnnual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting...
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Occupy Our Food Supply!
Big Food and Big Banks are two peas in a proverbial pod. Cloaked in corporate personhood, they form a 1%-reciprocal relationship to profiteer from deregulation while endangering our health, poisoning...
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Can You Arrest A Corporation?
Click for larger image There are some who say that corporations are people. So can you arrest one? Well, we’re going to find out. Right now, corporations technically have the same First Amendment...
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Farmers Unite with RAN To Fight Cargill And Challenge Corporate Control Of...
Cargill, Guilty as Charged Last week, over 40 Minnesota residents made a citizens’ arrest of Cargill, Inc. in front of the company’s downtown Minneapolis office at the Grain Exchange. I walked away...
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How To Occupy Cargill
Update: Occupy Cargill’s Phone Lines on #F27 If you can’t physically occupy a Cargill facility (see below), here is a quick and easy way to make a big difference just by picking up the phone. If you’d...
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Valentine Candy Alert
Did you buy chocolates today for someone you love? Take a quick second to scan the ingredients for palm oil and palm kernel oil. These controversial ingredients are no symbol of love. A majority of the...
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Occupy Our Food Supply: Create/Resist Reportback
Yesterday’s Occupy Our Food Supply global day of action was by all accounts a resounding success. The day included more than 100 events across the globe that united an unprecedented alliance of more...
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RAN Delivers Nearly 20,000 Petitions to Cargill HQ
The major tragedy that is still unfolding in Indonesia’s Tripa rainforest continues to threaten the survival of critically endangered Sumatran orangutans. As over 92 fires smolder, palm oil companies...
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What Does the 2012 Farm Bill Have to Do with Palm Oil?
Will the 2012 Farm Bill Shift Our Country's Unhealthy Consumption Patterns Away from Palm Oil Laden Packaged Foods? Photo: www.sustainableminimalist.com As our allies at the Environmental Working Group...
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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 an image of...
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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...
View ArticleBig 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 multi-stakeholder group and...
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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 set up shop by her...
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