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Oliver blasts junk food promotion
Author: London Evening Standard
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has joined health professionals and teachers to condemn the use of sporting role models to promote junk food. A letter to The Times signed by Oliver and others...says the use of well-loved sports people to advertise junk...
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- Related companies: Coca-Cola Mars McDonald's PepsiCo Walkers (part of PepsiCo)
Supply chain: Responsible sourcing means focus on details
Author: Fiona Harvey, Financial Times
It is no accident that so many of the businesses that have tended to be most conscious of their environmental performance have been those in the most customer-facing sectors...These companies have strong brands they want to protect – and often...
Palm Oil : Scottish companies show how it's done
Author: WWF
...Walkers and Nairn’s have thrown their weight behind a global scheme to prevent the destruction of tropical forests by supporting sustainably produced palm oil. According to the results of WWF’s first ever assessement of Europe’s leading brands, the...
- Related stories: WWF praises Walkers, Nairn’s for supporting sustainable palm oil - industry linked to climate change, displacement
- Related companies: Walkers (part of PepsiCo)
How Green Is My Orange?
Author: Andrew Martin, New York Times
How much does your morning glass of orange juice contribute to global warming? PepsiCo, which owns the Tropicana brand, decided to try to answer that...it turned out that the biggest single source of emissions was simply growing oranges. Citrus groves...
- Related companies: PepsiCo Stonyfield Farm Tropicana (part of PepsiCo) Walkers (part of PepsiCo)
Survey examines impact of the recession on companies' climate change strategies
[PDF] Countdown to Copenhagen: Government, business and the battle against climate change
Author: Economist Intelligence Unit, The Economist
2009 has the potential to be a watershed year for climate change. The clock is counting down to the Copenhagen conference in December…Whatever policymakers in these various regions decide, the impact of regulation will fall primarily on the corporate...
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[DOC] Walkers response to War on Want
Author: Walkers
I would like to reiterate that Walkers products are cooked in SUNSEEDTM oil, which is a type of Sunflower oil. All of our crisps and snacks are cooked in this Sunflower oil and we do not use palm oil in any of our products. However, I would like to...
Colombia: War on Want report on displacement, violence to make way for palm oil cultivation - industry says are “isolated cases"
[PDF] Fuelling Fear: The human cost of biofuels in Colombia
Author: War on Want [UK]
There is an emerging pattern of displacement and human rights violations against Afro-Colombian communities connected to palm oil cultivation. Numerous cases of communities being threatened and attacked by paramilitary groups have been reported. Not...
- Related in-depth areas: Biofuels / Palm oil Colombia Displacement NGO
- Related companies: Cadbury Schweppes (now Cadbury) Heinz PepsiCo Walkers (part of PepsiCo)
British Food Makers Aim to Save Water - and Money
Author: Jeremy Lovell, Reuters
Several major British food manufacturers joined forces on Monday with a pledge to help the environment by saving water, and with it money. The pledge by 21 firms including Cadbury Schweppes, Tate & Lyle and Nestle UK is part of a wider initiative...
- Related companies: Cadbury Schweppes (now Cadbury) Mars Nestlé PepsiCo Tate & Lyle Walkers (part of PepsiCo)