Dear Friends
It's been a bad week for major U.S. agribusinesses.
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>I want you to help make it worse.
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>http://ga3.org/campaign/ag_launch/8753udn2h7ntndnt?
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>The CEOs of agribusiness giants Archer Daniels
Midland (ADM),
>Bunge and Cargill woke up this morning to their
second big
>surprise in as many days: After opening yesterday's
Chicago
>Tribune to a full page ad accusing their companies of
wrecking
>the climate by producing industrial biofuels, today
they were
>forced to reckon with a 50-foot banner draped off the
Chicago
>Board of Trade calling them the "ABC's of Rainforest
>Destruction."
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>Now, it's your turn to keep up the pressure.
>http://ga3.org/campaign/ag_launch/8753udn2h7ntndnt?
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>Tell these CEOs that you won't put up with the
destruction of
>rainforests and our climate, or the displacement of
Indigenous
>communities, just so they can make a buck.
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>Deforestation is responsible for a quarter of
worldwide
>greenhouse gas emissions. ADM, Bunge and Cargill
clear huge
>swaths of forest, burn the land, and drain peat
swamps in order
>to make biofuel crops - which they promote as a
"green"
>alternative to fossil fuels - and oil for cheap food
products.
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>Of course, slashing and burning rainforests for
biofuels
>releases massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the
>atmosphere, intensifying global warming rather than
solving it.
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>Tell these CEOs you aren't buying their false
solutions to
>climate change!
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>http://ga3.org/campaign/ag_launch/8753udn2h7ntndnt?
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>All three CEOs need to feel some real grassroots
pressure, and
>I'm counting on you.
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>Tropical rainforests are not only our best defense
against
>global warming, they also regulate the global climate
by pumping
>out heat and moisture, creating rain clouds that
reach as far
>away as Iowa. Agribusiness expansion also threatens
endangered
>species like the orangutan and Sumatran tiger,
displaces family
>farmers and Indigenous communities, and encourages
the use of
>deplorable labor practices that sometimes include
slave labor.
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>How can we let these corporations get away with this?
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>Send a message today and your voice will help stop
rainforest
>destruction, prevent climate catastrophe, and defend
human
>rights.
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>Thank you so much,
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>Leila Salazar-Lopez
>Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign
>Rainforest Action Network
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