Food companies and grocers urge commodity suppliers to refuse soybeans from deforested areas in Brazil
Nestlé, Unilever, McDonald's, Walmart Inc., Tesco Plc and other consumer-goods companies demanded in a letter that the traders refuse to trade soy from deforested regions Some of the world’s largest food companies and grocers urged commodity suppliers including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co, Bunge Ltd, Cargill Inc and Louis Dreyfus Co. to stop trading soybeans associated with deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region, a savanna that is a hive of biodiversity and one of the country’s most important carbon sinks. Nestlé, Unilever, McDonald's, Walmart Inc., Tesco Plc and o...
Source: mercopress.com