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.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Smucker disclose, at reasonable expense and omitting proprietary information, available quantitative metrics on pesticide use in the Company’s supply chains that can cause harm to pollinators, human health, or the environment.
Read MoreWHEREAS: 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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