Posts in Environmental Health
JM Smucker Co: Regenerative Agriculture and Climate Goals

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that J.M. Smucker assess and report on the benefits of adopting a policy designed to increase use of regenerative agricultural practices across the Company’s priority ingredient supply chain to reduce climate impacts, protect human safety, and mitigate environmental harm. 

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The Kraft Heinz Co: Disclosure of Pesticide Use in Agricultural Supply Chains

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Kraft Heinz issue a report, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, explaining if and how the company is measuring the use in its agricultural supply chains of pesticides that can cause material harm to human health and the environment.

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Archer Daniels Midland Co: Disclosure of Pesticide Use in Agricultural Supply Chains

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that ADM issue a report, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, explaining if and how the company is measuring the use in its agricultural supply chains of pesticides that cause harm to human health and the environment.

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Costco Wholesale Corporation: Disclosure of Antibiotics Use in Meat Supply Chain

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Costco adopt an enterprise wide policy to phase out the use of medically important antibiotics in its private label chicken supply chain (including routine use for disease prevention) with an exception for treatment and non-routine control of diagnosed illness.

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Conagra: Disclosure of Pesticide Use in Agricultural Supply Chains

Resolved: Shareholders request that Conagra Brands issue a report, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, explaining if and how the company is measuring the use, in its agricultural supply chains, of pesticides that cause harm to human health, pollinators, and the environment.

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Kraft-Heinz: Disclosure of Pesticide Use in Agricultural Supply Chains

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Kraft Heinz issue a report, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, explaining if and how the company is measuring, and whether it plans to disclose, the use in its agricultural supply chains of pesticides that cause harm to human health and the environment.

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Campbell Soup Company: Pesticide Use in Agricultural Supply Chains

WHEREAS: American families have long trusted Campbell Soup Company’s iconic brands for providing nourishing food products. Consumers are increasingly demanding healthy, natural, and safe food products, including those grown without pesticides that can harm the health of consumers, farmers, communities, and the environment.

Pesticide-based agricultural practices are creating growing risk to food companies. Scientists have connected pesticide exposure to cancer, developmental defects, and obesity, among other health harms. Consumers are increasingly demanding healthy, clean, and safe foods, and food companies are seeing increased litigation around pesticide use. Pesticide-based farming methods degrade soil health, increase erosion, and contribute to the loss of pollinator species essential to food production. Weeds and insects develop resistance to pesticides with associated crop losses of $1.4 billion per year.

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JM Smucker: Pesticide Use in Agricultural Supply Chains

WHEREAS: Pesticide-based agricultural practices are creating growing risk to food companies. Scientists have connected pesticide exposure to cancer, developmental defects, and obesity, among other health harms. Consumers are increasingly demanding healthy, clean, and safe foods, and food companies are seeing increased litigation around pesticide use. Pesticide-based farming methods degrade soil health, increase erosion, and contribute to the loss of pollinator species essential to food production. Weeds and insects develop resistance to pesticides with associated crop losses of $1.4 billion per year.

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Kellogg Company: Pesticide Use in Agricultural Supply Chains

WHEREAS: Pesticide-based agricultural practices are creating growing risk to food companies. Scientists have connected pesticide exposure to cancer, developmental defects, and obesity, among a list of health harms. Consumers are increasingly demanding healthy, pesticide and GMO free foods, and food companies are seeing increased litigation around pesticide use. Pesticide-based farming methods degrade soil health, contributes to erosion, and is a major contributor to the loss of pollinator species essential to food production. Weeds and insects develop resistance to pesticides with associated crop losses of $1.4 billion per year.

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Costco Wholesale Corporation: Disclosure of Antibiotics Use in Meat and Poultry Supply Chain

WHEREAS: The World Economic Forum 2015 Global Risk Report ranked water as the top societal risk facing the world in terms of potential economic impact. (1)  The Human Right to Water, formally recognized by the United Nations in 2010, clarifies that it is the responsibility of companies to ensure their operations do not infringe upon the right of individuals to sufficient, safe, acceptable, accessible, and affordable water. This human right is further buttressed by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6, which includes a target for improving water quality by reducing pollution and minimizing the discharge of hazardous chemicals and materials.

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