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Food Industry Issues Dire Warning to Congress: Get Serious About Climate Change or Starve
Robert F. Kennedy Jr's Ring Of Fire ^ | October 2, 2015 | Justin Lane

Posted on 10/02/2015 8:08:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Ten of the world’s largest food production companies sent a letter to the U.S. Congress on Thursday, encouraging them to take action on climate change.

The letter was signed by the chief executive officers from Unilever, Mars, Kellogg, General Mills, Nestle, New Belgium Brewing, Ben & Jerry’s, Clif Bar, Stonyfield Farm, and Dannon.

“The challenge presented by climate change will require all of us – government, civil society and business – to do more with less. For companies like ours, that means producing more food on less land using fewer natural resources. If we don’t take action now, we risk not only today’s livelihoods, but those of future generations,” they wrote. “We are asking you to embrace the opportunity presented to you in Paris, and to come back with a sound agreement, properly financed, that can affect real change.”

Unilever spokesman Tom Langan pointed out that no one company can do this alone during an earlier round-table discussion in D.C.

“The reality is, Unilever can hit all its goals and it won’t make a difference, alone, in and of itself,” Langan said. “We need to work together. We need governments to be involved.”

For more on this, read the article from ThinkProgress titled: “Food Industry to Congress: We Need You to Act on Climate Change.”


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; corporatism; diecorporatescum; fascism; food; globalwarming; globalwarmingcult; globalwarminghoax; globalwarminhoax; greed; nannystate
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To: smartyaz

I suppose, given your screen name, you’re obligated to have that pic on hand.


21 posted on 10/02/2015 8:21:29 PM PDT by G Larry (Vote Hillary! Pro-Abortion Socialist)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Smells like a price fixing cartel.


22 posted on 10/02/2015 8:22:12 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t know about the others, but these four are certified liberal fk wads, who push their BS scam “organic” food at prices 4X higher than “non-organic” products - as if their cow sh*t was better than the same cow sh*t used on “non-organic” farms. Total frauds, hypocrites looking to enlarge their bottom line - and get a leg up on their competition via their pretentious moral superiority


23 posted on 10/02/2015 8:22:41 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve heard. Blehhh.


24 posted on 10/02/2015 8:24:37 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself." -James Madison)
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To: doc1019

It’s for crony subsidies and handouts...


25 posted on 10/02/2015 8:25:11 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“These four” being:

New Belgium Brewing
Ben & Jerry’s
Clif Bar
Stonyfield Farm


26 posted on 10/02/2015 8:25:27 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: Politicalkiddo

27 posted on 10/02/2015 8:26:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The very large food manufacturer I had been associated with engaged in no such foolishness. Unfortunately, I see the co is moving headquarters from Omaha to Chicago — so we’ll have to wait and see whether they stay conservative.


28 posted on 10/02/2015 8:26:54 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Williams

Agree....Bunny huggers won’t even eat B&J’s crap cream......


29 posted on 10/02/2015 8:27:47 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just shows how many leftists are CEOs of major corporations. Explains a lot.


30 posted on 10/02/2015 8:28:09 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: Thorliveshere
Cliff Bar> Stoneybrook Farms? The Robert Kennedy Center in conjunction with CERES? Captufdfdre
31 posted on 10/02/2015 8:28:44 PM PDT by smartyaz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More corporate welfare please..


32 posted on 10/02/2015 8:30:05 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: wac3rd
Cap54755ture
33 posted on 10/02/2015 8:32:24 PM PDT by smartyaz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The companies listed are known advocates of Leftist causes, and donate handsomely to those causes.

I wouldn’t put much stock in their opinion on much of anything, however I’m concerned anytime a Leftist with access to lots, and lots of money, thus influence has something to say about my freedoms.


34 posted on 10/02/2015 8:32:24 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You know who really controls the “food industry”?

Farmers.

Who know “climate change” is called “weather” and stuff like this letter gets scooped up and spread on the fields.


35 posted on 10/02/2015 8:34:41 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: doc1019

The problem is that these folks are NOT uninformed...

They know exactly what they are doing and will not be satisfied until they own us all in every way that matters. They may already be there, if you have the nerve to move the curtain a little and see what’s behind it.

Anyone that still thinks big business is a friend of personal liberty needs to obtain a clue.


36 posted on 10/02/2015 8:36:18 PM PDT by L,TOWM (Is it still too soon to start shooting? [No social transformation without representation])
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m in the middle of the corn belt. Our farmers feed more people than anyone on earth. They are the front line of agriculture. These people keep themselves very well informed on anything affecting their business. I don’t know a single one that doesn’t know that “climate change” is a hoax.


37 posted on 10/02/2015 8:37:08 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“We are asking you to embrace the opportunity presented to you in Paris, and to come back with a sound agreement, properly financed, that can affect real change.”

...

Properly Financed. Those are the key words and most likely this means these companies have found a way to steal billions from the taxpayer.


38 posted on 10/02/2015 8:39:47 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: L,TOWM
Capthgfure
39 posted on 10/02/2015 8:41:05 PM PDT by smartyaz
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To: Williams
van fist
40 posted on 10/02/2015 8:42:33 PM PDT by smartyaz
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