Ahold Delhaize, despite its own corporate sustainability pledges, recently broke ground on a new meat packaging facility in Rhode Island as a joint venture with Cargill. Mighty Earth’s new report identifies Ahold Delhaize – an international supermarket giant that owns Stop & Shop, Giant, Food Lion, Hannaford, and many other brands – as a key customer of Cargill that could take immediate action. “But deforestation isn’t something that’s happening to Cargill, it’s something that Cargill is doing.” “In press releases and public statements, the agribusiness giant Cargill presents itself as frustrated with deforestation, as though it were some externality they have no control over, like bad weather,” Hurowitz said. Instead, Cargill continues to prioritize the deforesters in its supply chains over the climate or their customers’ sustainability demands. However, Cargill has refused, time and time again, to substantively address the problems Mighty Earth identified. Mighty Earth has served as a key convener for other sectors – including rubber, chocolate, and palm oil – as those companies sought to improve their environmental standards and impacts. Given their ubiquity and obstinance, we decided it was time to take a closer look at their checkered past.”įor months, Mighty Earth has engaged in discussions with Cargill, including at the CEO level, to address the report’s findings and seek long-term solutions. Whether we were working on palm oil in Southeast Asia, cocoa farming in West Africa, or soy cultivation in South America, Cargill was always there, ready to thwart progress and impede joint conservation efforts.
“Mighty Earth runs campaigns around the globe to advocate for sustainable business practices, and Cargill kept showing up when our investigations identified bad actors. “As one of the largest companies in the world, Cargill has a responsibility to address its outsized impact,” Mighty Earth CEO Glenn Hurowitz said. “I have seen firsthand the harmful impact of businesses that do not bring their ethics with them to work. “In my 40-year long career in Congress, I took on a range of companies that engaged in abusive practices,” former congressman and Mighty Earth Chairman Henry Waxman writes in the report. The report is available in Spanish, Dutch, French, Portuguese and German. Mighty Earth’s new report, “ Cargill: The Worst Company in the World,” documents decades of bad acts by the company and highlights the need for urgent action. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Environmental campaign organization Mighty Earth announced today that it had named Minnesota-based Cargill as the “Worst Company in the World” due to its unscrupulous business practices, environmental destruction, and repeated insistence on standing in the way of global progress on sustainability.
This press release is available in French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and German.
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