WALMART'S Rainforest Rollback
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 September 2019 06:34
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The Brazilian beef industry is burning down the Amazon to clear land for industrial cattle ranches. And that beef is being bought up in huge quantities by retail giant Walmart.
Tell Walmart to defend our planet's lungs and boycott Brazilian beef until the Amazon rainforest is protected from sanctioned destructionA,
The Amazon is disappearing — and corporations like Walmart are complicit.
We have all heard that the Brazilian beef industry, emboldened by President Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right regime, is burning down the Amazon to clear land for industrial cattle ranches. But that beef is being bought up in huge quantities by retail giant Walmart.
Life-sustaining rainforests shouldn't be rolled back so Walmart can make more money.
But as such a major buyer of Brazilian beef, Walmart has the power to pressure the Brazilian government to take the threat to the Amazon seriously. And that could stop the fires in the Amazon.
Over 76,000 fires have been recorded in Brazil this year—mostly caused by agricultural activity. That’s thanks to President Jair Bolsonaro, who has lived up to his campaign promises to weaken environmental protections.
That’s bad news for the planet: the Amazon’s biodiversity is literally millions of years in the making, and its size and density has earned it the nickname “the planet’s lungs”. The aggressive deforestation is also claiming the lands and livelihoods of indigenous peoples that call the Amazon home.
Walmart has a historical opportunity to protect the world’s largest rainforest—and we have the power to push it to act before it’s too late.
Call on Walmart to boycott Brazilian beef until the government clamps down on Amazon deforestation.
Thanks for all that you do,
Angus, Luca, Reem, Katie, and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
How beef demand is accelerating the Amazon’s deforestation and climate peril, Washington Post, August 27, 2019.
Nearly 2,000 new fires have started in the Amazon in the past 48 hours despite burning ban from government, Business Insider, September 1, 2019.
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