Send your message to shareholders at Nestle's AGM

Posted by jamie — 15 April 2010 at 11:39am - Comments

You've emailed, called and sent Easter cards but Nestle have simply not taken enough action to stop buying palm oil and other products from those companies destroying Indonesia's rainforests. So today we're asking you to send messages in to the heart of their annual general meeting in Switzerland where the shareholders will be gathered.

Add your message on Twitter (make sure you include a #nestle tag) or comment in the window below - our campaigners and activists at the AGM are directing shareholders to see your messages on our website.

Our activities at the AGM are backed up by new evidence we're releasing today which shows how Sinar Mas - the palm oil giant which has repeatedly commitments to end its role in deforestation - has in the past few weeks been clearing areas of valuable rainforest and peatlands in Kalimantan, including areas of orang-utan habitat.

Furthermore, we met with Nestle representatives yesterday in London and unfortunately the word is that they have yet to take any further action to deal with these issues and they're still buying Sinar Mas palm oil via third party suppliers such as Cargill.

As you'll know if you received an email response from Nestle, they're waiting for Cargill and Sinar Mas to report back by the end of this month which may only be a couple of weeks away, but Nestle have had several years to get on top of this problem and are still not showing signs of moving particularly quickly now.

Along with several other Greenpeace campaigners, my colleague Ian is at the AGM and has already this video from Switzerland to say thank you for everything you've done so far.

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more updates as they happen! And don't forget to send your message to Nestle's shareholders.

About Jamie

I'm a forests campaigner working mainly on Indonesia. My personal mumblings can be found @shrinkydinky.

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