Nestle Corporation Under Fire from Greenpeace
The world’s largest food company, Nestle, has been at the centre of some growing and very heated controversy over the past few weeks with environmental organisation Greenpeace sparking a crusade tying Nestle to the annihilation of rainforests in Indonesia through one of its palm oil suppliers.
The controversy is based on the fact that Nestle gets its palm oil from the Sinar Mas company in Indonesia who destroys the natural forests in order to have room to plant the tropical palm plant. Once Nestle was convinced that the activists at Greenpeace were correct in their allegations about the forest destruction, it has dropped their association with that company. The problem has not gone away for the big corporation however, as it still buys its palm oil from Cargill, which in turn, also gets its supply from Sinar Mas.
Nestle was successful in the removal of one of Greenpeace’s videos from the popular YouTube site relating to the issue, but the video spread over the Internet, while Facebook and Twitter were soon flooded with massive messages of protest. In the beginning, Nestle’s top personnel dismissed the activity which only made things worse, resulting in the Swiss food giant receiving nearly a quarter of a million emails regarding the issue.
Rainforests: Their Part in Global Climate Change
Though there has been a lot of discussion and awareness about the deleterious effects of rainforest destruction, the true impact of such devastation has still not been fully understood by a majority of the world population. The fact that the Amazon rainforests and the savannas harbour more than seventy percent of the world flora, and are thus very crucial to planet Earth, is yet to be recognised.
As part of a new international project to save the rainforests, researchers belonging to the Leeds Earth and Biosphere Institute are studying the impact of global climate change and warming on these savannas and rainforests. They are of the opinion that the world may be witnessing the beginning of a cycle wherein global warming may be leading to the shrinkage of rainforests which in turn releases more amount of carbon into the environment. This automatically raises the temperature of the atmosphere and the cycle continues on its destructive path causing more and more virgin rainforests to disappear.
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