Cargill, worst company in the World
City, London. Fri 31 Jan 2020
The protesters were late in arriving. Earlier I've seen a large number
of security men standing around and the
police came to talk with them, but most had actually left ten minutes
before the protest actually began. As had
another photographer who had been waiting with me.
Presumably following police advice the main doors of the office building
had been locked and notices put up
telling workers to use the side entrance. Cargill has offices on the
third floor and a grey card has been put up
to cover their name on the board at the reception desk.
One of the protesters lets everyone around the area know why the are
protesting against Cargill
Quite a few people stop in the area around to listen and the megaphone
will certainly have been audible to
anyone in the Cargill offices and those in the surrounding buildings,
though sometimes the sound was a
little distorted.
Cargill is a private US company that produces buys and sells agricultural
products around the world
and has been accused of human rights abuses, land grabbing, accelerating
deforestation as well as its
activities producing huge quantities of greenhouse gases, particularly
carbon dioxide and methane from animal agriculture.
Cargill sources cocoa from plantations in Ivory Coast - Nestle is
its main customer. A recent French TV investigation revealed the use of
child labour
and the company and Nestles were charged with this back in 2005.
Cargill exports a quarter of US grain and supplies over a fifth of
the US domestic meat market, it is the
largest importer of meat from Argentina and the largest poultry producer
in Thailand.
Prootesters from London Climate Save wer joined by two from Extinction
Rebellion
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