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Food Industry Issues Dire Warning to Congress: Get Serious About Climate Change or Starve
Robert F. Kennedy Jr's Ring Of Fire ^ | October 2, 2015 | Justin Lane

Posted on 10/02/2015 8:08:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Ten of the world’s largest food production companies sent a letter to the U.S. Congress on Thursday, encouraging them to take action on climate change.

The letter was signed by the chief executive officers from Unilever, Mars, Kellogg, General Mills, Nestle, New Belgium Brewing, Ben & Jerry’s, Clif Bar, Stonyfield Farm, and Dannon.

“The challenge presented by climate change will require all of us – government, civil society and business – to do more with less. For companies like ours, that means producing more food on less land using fewer natural resources. If we don’t take action now, we risk not only today’s livelihoods, but those of future generations,” they wrote. “We are asking you to embrace the opportunity presented to you in Paris, and to come back with a sound agreement, properly financed, that can affect real change.”

Unilever spokesman Tom Langan pointed out that no one company can do this alone during an earlier round-table discussion in D.C.

“The reality is, Unilever can hit all its goals and it won’t make a difference, alone, in and of itself,” Langan said. “We need to work together. We need governments to be involved.”

For more on this, read the article from ThinkProgress titled: “Food Industry to Congress: We Need You to Act on Climate Change.”


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; corporatism; diecorporatescum; fascism; food; globalwarming; globalwarmingcult; globalwarminghoax; globalwarminhoax; greed; nannystate
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I ate roasted crickets in survival school. Kinda greasy. Otherwise bland.

CC


41 posted on 10/02/2015 8:45:19 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Lightspeed: 186,000 miles per second squared. It's not just a good idea, it's THE LAW!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Listen you. You better stop making sense and get with the program.


42 posted on 10/02/2015 8:50:43 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These same corporations are what’s wrong with our food supply.

They are doubling down on stupid.

I guess what’s in it for them is tighter controls, higher prices. Just like Obamacare.


43 posted on 10/02/2015 8:52:45 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: G Larry
That’s an impressive number of gullible CEO’s.

Are they gullible, or just bought off, and paid to lie.

44 posted on 10/02/2015 9:00:04 PM PDT by Mark17 (Heaven, where the only thing there that's been made by man are the scars in the hands of Jesus)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why don’t they just seed the clouds with Brawndo.
Brawndo’s electrolytes have got what plants crave.


45 posted on 10/02/2015 9:01:49 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If these companies believed this crap, they would be buying up potential farmland in Canada.


46 posted on 10/02/2015 9:11:24 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:21)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
From a corporation point of view, the letter serves two purposes.

#1) Insulation from a very political IRS. Remember, Coca Cola just got hit for $30,000,000,000 in back taxes. Volkswagen and their recent non-union plants in America just got their diesel nightmare.

#2) The government grant handouts and federal cost sharing money pot is going to be ripe for "Sustainable Practices" seed money for food producers to adopt newer practices IAW climate change rules mandated by government, so it's better to be out ahead and sitting on such panels making the rules.

47 posted on 10/02/2015 9:15:58 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Mark17

Yes.


48 posted on 10/02/2015 9:16:38 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: headstamp 2

Major bucks were made by DuPont on the ozone hole scare. Crony capitalists make money on all of these hoaxes.


49 posted on 10/02/2015 9:18:12 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: smartyaz

Clearly we need to double our CO2 emissions.


50 posted on 10/02/2015 9:18:19 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: blackdog

3# Large corporations can absorb the cost of regulations and drive out smaller competitors.
4# Multinationals can out compete US based corporations by avoiding regulations by producing abroad and importing.


51 posted on 10/02/2015 9:23:17 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

52 posted on 10/02/2015 9:35:35 PM PDT by TapsBrowning
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"The letter was signed by the chief executive officers from Unilever, Mars, Kellogg, General Mills, Nestle, New Belgium Brewing, Ben & Jerry’s, Clif Bar, Stonyfield Farm, and Dannon."

Some of us won't starve for lack of junk food.


53 posted on 10/02/2015 9:41:59 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tryin’ to stay on the correct side of the Gravy Train.


54 posted on 10/02/2015 9:45:17 PM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Chaguito
properly financed

That's all you need to read right there.

It's all about the money flowing.

55 posted on 10/02/2015 10:07:15 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would be willing to bet this is better for you than processed white flour. However, I don’t think I could bring myself to eat it if I knew what it was...


56 posted on 10/02/2015 10:10:22 PM PDT by America_Right (Time to play your Trump card, America. Use it or lose it.)
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To: WTFOVR

Sumb*tch. So Clif Bar is a globullist warming lefty prototype of F(the)utureFud - the kind of fare Mooch and the Minions will have us all eating while they have 5 course meals the rest of their demonic lives. And they want to jack the price up due to “climate change”? I’m done. I won’t buy them ever again.


57 posted on 10/02/2015 10:22:51 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”

#globalwarmingcult


58 posted on 10/02/2015 10:28:07 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: doc1019

Their not uninformed; they just see a buck to be made here in higher food prices.


59 posted on 10/02/2015 11:46:07 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Fungi

I laugh at the price of yogurt. Well, laugh that people actually pay that much for it. It is ridiculously easy to make at home.


60 posted on 10/03/2015 12:12:30 AM PDT by Rodamala
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