John, in just 3 weeks we could finally stop KFC and Pizza Hut
from using rainforest-wrecking palm oil.

We can't miss this chance to protect our precious forests from fast-food
greed -- can you add your name now?

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

They tried to silence us.

Yum! Brands, owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, unleashed its legal power to try
to prevent us from using our power as shareholders. But we stood strong
and we won’t back down until rainforests are safe from the fast-food
giant’s greed.

Multi-billion dollar fast-food conglomerate Yum! Brands has one of the
industry's weakest anti-deforestation policies. Its reckless sourcing of
palm oil and other ingredients have horrific consequences for wildlife and
the climate -- and could even spur the next global pandemic.

Now, after all the excuses, smokescreens, and greenwashing attempts, Yum!
will finally have to listen to us. In just three weeks, we have an
opportunity to hold the corporation to account over its destructive ways
-- and we urgently need your help to make sure it doesn't go to waste!

We're crashing Yum!'s AGM to present your signatures along a hard hitting
no-deforestation shareholder proposal. Your pressure will convince
shareholders that deforestation is bad for business -- and force Yum! into
long-overdue rainforest-saving action.

[ [link removed] ]Demand KFC and Pizza Hut take deforestation off their menu!

John, deforestation for cheap fast-food ingredients has driven
endangered animals like orangutans, pygmy elephants and Sumatran rhinos to
the brink of extinction. It's caused devastating wildfires in the Amazon
and Indonesia and released tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. And now
experts are saying it might make pandemics like COVID-19 more likely to
happen.

And still, knowing all this, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell can't -- or
won't -- prove their palm oil, beef, soy, and paper packaging are
sustainably sourced. CEOs talk a green game, but who knows how many
millions of trees are being slashed and burned behind the scenes?

Last year, we traveled to Yum!'s Kentucky HQ to present our proposal for
much-needed transparency on forests. When it got one in every three votes,
Yum! responded -- by trying to ban us from doing the same thing this year.
But our people power beat all their legal brass. Now we've got one more
chance -- and we have to make it count.

There's a big difference this year: the pandemic means we can't confront
Yum!'s bosses in person. So it's extra important to have your signatures
on our side to make the biggest impression on both shareholders and the
board.

[ [link removed] ]Please, will you add your name to save our forests, the last orangutans
and prevent the next pandemic?

With nobody to hold them accountable, corporations like Yum! will keep
exploiting our natural world to the point of collapse. It's up to us to
show them that when rainforests burn, we all lose.

And you've already shown you're up to the task, John. Pressure
from SumOfUs members like you has gotten some of the world's most powerful
corporations to take deforestation seriously -- like Pepsi, which
radically overhauled its palm oil sourcing policy this year after over one
million of you called it out. Or Lindt, which committed to an ambitious
zero-deforestation policy for its cocoa after you and I exposed the
rainforest destruction behind its fancy wrapping.

With your help, KFC and Pizza Hut will finally take deforestation off the
menu. But there isn't much time left to act. On behalf of rainforests
everywhere, can you join us?



[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



Thanks for all that you do,
Fatah and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Our shareholder proposal, SEC, April 2020
[ [link removed] ]What's driving deforestation?, Union of Concerned Scientists
[ [link removed] ]How does fast food impact the environment?, Environmental Technology, 7
February 2019
[ [link removed] ]How the world got hooked on palm oil, The Guardian, 19 February 2019

 

 

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