'The ABCs of rainforest destruction'

Raising a ruckus about agrofuels at the Chicago Board of Trade

Posted by Tom Philpott at 3:42 PM on 11 Oct 2007

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Police this morning arrested five people who scaled the Chicago Board of Trade building in the Loop and unfurled a banner to protest the destruction of the world's rain forests. The demonstrators, members of the Rainforest Action Network ... displayed a 50-foot banner protesting three U.S. agriculture companies. The protest was part of a campaign to "halt agribusiness expansion in the rain forests of South America, Southeast Asia and the Pacific," according to a statement by the group. The protest targeted agribusiness firms Archer Daniels Midland Co., Bunge and Cargill.

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by mleonard at 5:09 PM on 11 Oct 2007

Don't let agrobusiness destroy the rainforest

The Rainforest Action Network's new Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign is letting ADM, Bunge and Cargill know that destroying the world's rainforests for profit won't fly.

Tell the CEOs of these companies that agrobusiness as usual must end. You can send a message to the CEOs here ~

http://ga3.org/campaign/ag_launch

by Karen Lee Orr at 7:13 PM on 11 Oct 2007

While I agree with the message

While I agree with the message. There's more influencial ways they could deliver it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RBqFAJmonRU

Kind of disappointing actually.

by GreyFlcn at 7:14 PM on 11 Oct 2007
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Not sure i agree, grey

They made the front page of the Trib, didn't they?

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by Tom Philpott at 7:56 PM on 11 Oct 2007

Man, that took balls

We need more of this. Every gallon of vegetable oil diverted from the food chain to a car has to be made up somewhere and the only land left to plow sits under a biodiverse carbon sink.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

by biodiversivist at 8:42 AM on 12 Oct 2007

Perhaps

Not sure I agree, grey
They made the front page of the Trib, didn't they?

But the problem is getting them to be taken seriously.

I don't believe this serves that purpose.

The FOCUS should be on changing the oppinions of large "environmental lobbying groups".
And our public and private leaders.

I think this is similar to that Patreus ad, where the story was more about the audacity of what they did, rather than the substance behind it.

by GreyFlcn at 12:32 PM on 13 Oct 2007

Frankly

You aren't going to shame shameless companies.
That tactic just doesn't work.

If shame was their approach, they'd do far better to shame NRDC or GreenPeace for their support of biofuels.

Highly public organizations that actually care whether or not they are perceived as "green".

by GreyFlcn at 12:41 PM on 13 Oct 2007

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