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http://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-largest-food-companies-shun-poor-people-growing-their-ingredients-2013-2The world's largest food companies are failing to meet ethical standards, a report from Oxfam has warned. None of the leading global brands such as Nestlé, Mars and Coca-Cola were given good overall ratings on their commitments to protect farmers, local communities and the environment, while British food giant Associated British Foods (ABF), owner of brands including Kingsmill, Ovaltine and Silverspoon, received the lowest rating.
The charity's Behind the Brands report compiled a scorecard, rating the "big 10" food companies in seven categories: the transparency of their supply chains and operations, how they ensure the rights of workers, how they protect women's rights, the management of water and land use, their policies to reduce the impacts of climate change and how they ensure the rights of the farmers who grow their ingredients.
The company with the lowest score just 13 out of 70 was ABF. It scored just one mark out of 10 in its treatment of land, women and climate change, while the highest scores it managed to achieve was three out of 10, in relation to workers and transparency.
In joint second-lowest place were Kellogg's and General Mills, which owns Old El Paso, Häagen-Dazs and Nature Valley, with both scoring 16 out of 70.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-largest-food-companies-shun-poor-people-growing-their-ingredients-2013-2#ixzz2M0jiWyPL
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(108,903 posts)1. Oxfam: World's Largest Food Companies Creating Legacy of Destruction
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/26
The world's largest food and beverage companies may be profitable, but according to Oxfam International their practices are helping to destroy not only the natural resources that support a global food system but the lives of the people they depend on most: their employees and their customers.
In a new effort called Behind the Brand, part of their ongoing GROW campaign to fix the broken food system, Oxfam has singled out the ten largest food processing companiesAssociated British Foods (ABF), Coca Cola, Danone, General Mills, Kelloggs, Mars, Mondelez, Nestlé, Pepsico and Unileverto make a singular statement about the failure of these behemoths to fulfill their social and environmental responsibilities.
According to Oxfam, these Big 10that together generate $1 billion-a-day in profitare failing millions of people in developing countries who supply land, labor, water and commodities needed to make their products.
Its time these companies take more responsibility for their immense influence on poor peoples lives, said Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director for Oxfam International. Eighty percent of the worlds hungry people work in food production and these companies employ millions of people in developing countries to grow their ingredients. They control hundreds of the worlds most popular brands and have the economic, social and political clout to make a real and lasting difference to the worlds poor and hungry.
The world's largest food and beverage companies may be profitable, but according to Oxfam International their practices are helping to destroy not only the natural resources that support a global food system but the lives of the people they depend on most: their employees and their customers.
In a new effort called Behind the Brand, part of their ongoing GROW campaign to fix the broken food system, Oxfam has singled out the ten largest food processing companiesAssociated British Foods (ABF), Coca Cola, Danone, General Mills, Kelloggs, Mars, Mondelez, Nestlé, Pepsico and Unileverto make a singular statement about the failure of these behemoths to fulfill their social and environmental responsibilities.
According to Oxfam, these Big 10that together generate $1 billion-a-day in profitare failing millions of people in developing countries who supply land, labor, water and commodities needed to make their products.
Its time these companies take more responsibility for their immense influence on poor peoples lives, said Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director for Oxfam International. Eighty percent of the worlds hungry people work in food production and these companies employ millions of people in developing countries to grow their ingredients. They control hundreds of the worlds most popular brands and have the economic, social and political clout to make a real and lasting difference to the worlds poor and hungry.