Posted on 07/09/2014 3:52:31 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
The graphic focuses on 10 of the world's most powerful food and beverage companies: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Unilever, Danone, Mars, Mondelez International, Kellogg's, General Mills, Nestle, and Associated British Foods.
Oxfam calls these companies the Big 10 and keeps a scorecard on their environmental impact on a website devoted to the nonprofit's "Behind the Brands" campaign.
The campaign aims to make the companies more environmentally and socially conscious.
According to one of Oxfam's most recent reports, the Big 10 emitted 263.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2013 and if the companies were a nation, it would be the 25th most polluting country in the world.
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Eat whatever you please. Stay out of my eating habits though. I live in the country and buy very little from any of those companies. I’ve not eaten at a fast food joint in probably 25 years, I never liked their crap. But to each their own, it’s their choice and theirs alone
I would agree.
We don’t eat one single thing from any of those labels/companies.
bfl
Good post! (#16)
My hat is off to wives and mothers who take on the difficult task of feeding their families healthy food amidst the poisoned food supply created by the above-mentioned “10 companies” et al.
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