John,

One billionaire family is about to rip open the Amazon for even more profit.

The Cargill-Macmillan family owns the world’s biggest agriculture company, Cargill Inc. They’re behind some of the worst destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous land grabs, and have even been linked to child slavery.

Now, this toxic corporation is sneakily backtracking on its commitments to protect the Amazon rainforest under the Soy Moratorium – one of the most effective instruments to save the Amazon - to buy even more soy tainted with deforestation.

It thought nobody would notice. But we know, and we’re going to turn the spotlight on the notoriously secretive Cargill family like never before.

If all of us chip in just a little, we can build a crack team to expose the Cargills and Amazon destruction by other agribusiness giants, counter Big Ag’s lobbyists, and double down on our campaigns in the media and with local partners ahead of Brazil’s global climate summit. We could target key lawmakers, family shareholders, AGMs – and take the pressure to boiling point until we win. But we need to raise the funds to pull it off.

If we move fast, we can change the fate of the Amazon rainforest and wild places everywhere. Can you chip in to help?

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Thanks to the Soy Moratorium, deforestation for soybeans in Brazil’s Amazon was drastically reduced.

Agribusiness giants like Cargill voluntarily agreed to not source soybeans from land deforested after 2008 – and this groundbreaking agreement worked. Over the last 18 years, an estimated 4 million acres of the Amazon have been saved from deforestation for soybeans.

This could all be about to change.

Cargill indicated in its latest sustainability report that it would adopt 2020 as the cut-off year for sourcing soy from deforested land. That’s MILLIONS of deforested acres that Cargill could now buy soy from, benefitting agribusiness interests that are pushing to destroy this Amazon-saving agreement.

If Cargill starts ignoring the agreement, others could soon follow, exposing 6.2 million acres of the Amazon for soy production with devastating knock-on effects for the people and wildlife that call the Amazon home.

We can’t let that happen.

With all of us chipping in what we can, we can build a massive people-powered campaign to turn up the heat on Cargill and amp up the global call to save the Amazon ahead of Brazil’s climate summit. From bringing Indigenous activists to meet with decision-makers and the media to overwhelming companies' AGMs with attention-grabbing stunts, to getting behind closed doors to counteract their lobbying, our campaigns work when we have enough money to see them through to the end.

Can you chip in to change the fate of the Amazon?

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