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Article

17 May 2010

Author:
Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com

Nestlé caves to activist pressure on palm oil

After a two month campaign against Nestle for its use of palm oil linked to rainforest destruction spearheaded by Greenpeace, the food giant has given in to activists' demands..."Nestle’s actions will focus on the systematic identification and exclusion of companies owning or managing high risk plantations or farms linked to deforestation," [said] the company...Nestle stated that under new sourcing guidelines it will...support free prior and informed consent for indigenous and local communities..."To get one end of the supply chain to take responsibility for what happens at the other end is a game changer," says Scott Poynton executive director of the Forest Trust...[also refers to Carrefour, Wal-mart, Sinar Mas, Cargill]