Dear candy makers: No more sweet lies
Your most beloved sweet, sour and savory snacks have a dark hidden past. The best known candy brands in the world have left a bitter trail of destruction in Indonesia's rainforests.
Let’s hold Nestlé, Mondelēz & Co. accountable for what they’re doing to Indonesia’s last rainforests -- and the people who depend on them.
We want to eat our cookies and snacks AND know that there is justice for local communities and an ever after for forests and climate!
To: Mars, Mondelēz, Nestlé, and Ferrero:
The world’s climate is at a perilous tipping point and protecting forests is a critical element to any real solution. Yet forests, and the communities at the frontlines of forest destruction, are increasingly under threat.
Your company has a massive forest footprint and continues to fuel deforestation and human rights abuses through your supply chains despite pledges to end deforestation, climate emissions and human rights abuses. You can only stop these abuses if you know they are happening.
I am calling on your company to investigate and publicly disclose the footprint of your global forest-risk commodity supply chains on forests, peatlands and Indigenous Peoples and frontline communities.
Show the world that your company is a leader and is taking the urgent climate, biodiversity, and human rights crises seriously. We still have a chance to keep forests standing, but there is no time to waste.
Sincerely,