Nestle has been under fire from greenpeace, and rightly so. Nestle products sometimes source palm oil. Palm oil has the potential to be a renewable resource if properly managed. The way not to do this is by cutting down the rainforest. Cutting down the rainforest is pretty bad in terms of destruction. 1st, rainforest have SO much carbon in them, when they are cut down the carbon dioxide is released back into the air (decomp or fuel) 2nd, rainforests fix so much carbon dioxide, they have a net fixation of CO2, so it slows climate change due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide. 3rd lots of cool stuff live there - cool stuff that deserves to live and could provide us with medicines. On the 16th of April, at the Nestle AGM, they were asked about palm oil and they had some good, but distant targets. Yay for change boo for time frame.
This went, hopefully, to the chairman of the Board of Directors, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe.
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Dear Mr. Brabeck-Letmathe,
First, I would like to applaud you for recognizing the value of the rainforest and acknowledging that Nestle needs to take steps to reduce its consumption of palm oil. I do realize that Nestle is not a major consumer of palm oil, both within the company and relative to global standards.
Second, I believe that the role of Nestle could be much greater. Nestle is a large and near ubiquitous company and the effects of your company will have a ripple effect and other companies will join suit. They must join suit, because concern for the environmental effects of deforestation is only growing. It's also a pretty good catch-all. Rainforests contain most of the world's biodiversity, many large charismatic animals live there, and they are huge carbon stores. Protecting areas of rainforest has a huge effect on many different environmental concerns.
I know that economically feasibility is often in contrast with conservation. Allow people to vote with their dollar, change one Nestle product to 100% sustainable palm oil (please don't do this by reducing the amount of sustainable palm oil in other products). Brand it as such, and allow people to support your initiatives while benefiting your company. I'm a big believer in purchasing items based on company policy but how am I to show that these are the items that I want to buy if they are not available?
Are there any upcoming products that I can purchase and feel good about purchasing, knowing that it contains 100% sustainable palm oil?
Thank you,
I like coffee! I bring my mug most places, but sometimes I forget. I'm human. Though I try to say that I don't need it, sometimes I really want it and get a disposable cup. It's like a diet - everyone slips once in a while! I usually go to the JustUs! cafe which has ceramic mugs for 'for here' and compostable cups 'to go' but sometimes SecondCup is closer! Hello Second Cup Customer Care! Second Cup coffee is really good. Your lattes have helped me through many exams! I try to bring a mug when I get coffee but sometimes I forget. When this happens, I have two choices, I can go to a coffee place which has compostable cups or I can go to Second Cup and get a plastic-lined cup which will not biodegrade. Some of my choices are based on environmental factors and since the price is not different between places - if I'm going to get a throw-away cup, it should be compostable. For this reason, I don't go to Second Cup as often as I could, or would, if there were compostable cups. Why does Second Cup not use compostable cups? Are there plans to implement them? What steps are Second Cup taking to reduce waste? At my local Second Cup, there is only a 10 cent discount when a mug is brought, but this may be a special case as it is a campus-wide policy. Thank you for your time, Lauren Dombowsky
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Playing games like Roll Up the Rim are fun. But sadly, I can't play Roll Up the Rim as guilt-free as I would like. Roll Up the Rim is based solely on the principle of me getting a plastic throw-away cup. I like taking my mug and for people like me, and everyone who likes to reduce their waste by bringing a mug, there should be another way to win.
I understand that it won't be as catchy as 'Roll Up the Rim' and that Tim Hortons has worked hard to make the promotion a part of Canadian culture. But a peel-away or scratch and win type substitute for people who bring their own mugs would be amazing. It would benefit Tim Hortons because coffee mugs typically hold more coffee than a medium sized cup and so people with mugs are buying more coffee than they might without one. It also reduces the cost of the product. Tim Hortons wins in two ways, the product costs less for your company and revenue is higher. It would be great PR for Tim Hortons, who is often criticized for the plastic lining in the cup making it not recyclable. If you really wanted to promote environmental consciousness, these scratch and wins could have slightly better odds than the cups, so that more people would be encouraged to bring their own mug. This means more money, less costs, and less stress on the environment. Everyone wins.
Does Tim Hortons plan on implementing compostable cups or an alternative to Roll Up The Rim?
Thank you,
Dear Whom It May Concern,
Sobeys has always had a good selection of organic foods, especially the Compliments range of organics which are reasonably priced too! I like shopping at Sobeys, I like the layout and I can find my way around and find what I'm looking for. When I was in Sobeys last, I asked one of the helpful staff members if they had any free range chicken. The staff member said that Sobeys doesn't carry any free range meat. I understand that there are price limitations to free range meat and there may be difficulty in finding a supplier, but demand for free range meat is only going to increase. People are only going to become more aware of the environmental impacts of factory farming and it's going to affect their consumer choices more and more.
Sobeys should carry free range meats. Sobeys is ahead of the curve in Canada for many environmental food issues. I love that local products are labelled local so that I can easily purchase local foods. Organic food and meat alternatives are readily available at Sobeys - free range meat should be the next change.
Meat probably makes up the largest part of my purchases and free range chicken and beef is easily available at other stores and extremely important to me and many others. I would like to continue shopping at Sobeys but it may become simply more convenient to get all my groceries at places which supply free range meat.
Why does Sobeys not carry free range meat? Are there plans to start supplying it? Could you please allow me some insight into why Sobeys does not offer free range food?
Thank you,