Oreo maker Mondelēz is getting filthy rich while impoverishing entire
communities in Indonesia.

Tell the candy giant to stop buying dirty palm oil NOW.

[ [link removed] ]Workers in Indonesia pile up their oil palm harvest on a truck.


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John,

Oreo cookies, Cadbury Cream eggs and Milka chocolate are making Mondelēz
rich while impoverishing entire communities in Indonesia as they are not
only filled with bulldozed rainforests but also double-stuffed with broken
promises! 

Mondelēz, one of the world’s biggest snack food companies, is sourcing
palm oil from bad players who’ve taken away Indigenous lands for their
plantations but never delivered on the promised share in the billion
dollar palm oil business. Thousands of families were hoping to have a
steady income and send their kids to school but instead were left with
nothing – and Mondelēz is complicit in this bitter-sweet symphony of human
rights violations.

But if we run a massive brand-damaging campaign against Mondelēz, it could
stop buying palm oil from promise-breaking producers – which then starts a
cascade of more big brands dropping these bad players, forcing them once
and for all to invest in the communities and livelihoods they destroyed.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Mondelēz: Drop dirty palm oil producers NOW

When Mat Yadi and his Suku Anak Dalam Indigenous community in Sumatra
agreed to hand over their ancestral rainforest land to be turned into oil
palm plantations, they did it under one condition – that they could make a
living off the plantation too, as smallholder farmers. But nothing was
ever returned to them.

And his story is not an isolated case. A latest report suggests that in
one Indonesian province alone, communities and villages are losing $90
million each year from the lands that greedy palm oil companies grabbed
for free.

The good news is that Mat’s community, together with hundreds of other
communities and villages, are fighting back – and we can join in
solidarity with them by holding a global company like Mondelēz to account:
if the candymaker fulfills its own promise to quit doing business with bad
actors, the bad players lose a big chunk of their profits, which would
force them to deliver on their end.

Mondelēz claims it's been working closely with its suppliers to ensure
proper fulfillment of their obligation to smallholder farmers but fails to
provide a clear and ambitious timeline and plan to right its suppliers
wrongs. The communities simply need more than lip service.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Mondelēz to cut ties with palm oil producers that destroy lives
and livelihoods

Big shifts in the palm oil industry are possible: just a little over two
years ago, SumOfUs members and partners made PepsiCo, a notorious laggard
when it comes to rainforest and human rights protection, commit to
stricter policies. It happened only because people like you didn’t stop
taking action to hold the company accountable for its abuse via petitions,
emails, digital and offline actions.

Mondelēz is another big laggard that tries to sell itself as a
sustainability leader but in fact does the bare minimum when it comes to
protecting rainforests and the people who depend on them. Now is the time
to push this big player to commit to more, before more communities like
Mat's are left with nothing but destroyed rainforest.



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


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Palm oil firms depriving tribes of millions of dollars
BBC, 23 May 2022
 
[ [link removed] ]A hidden crisis in Indonesia’s palm oil sector: 6 takeaways from our
investigation
Mongabay, 31 May 2022

 

 

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