Profits from 20 food operations could support 230 million
Twenty of the world’s largest food corporations delivered $53.5 billion to shareholders, an amount Greenpeace claims could help 230 million of the “most vulnerable people on Earth”.
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Twenty of the world’s largest food corporations delivered $53.5 billion to shareholders, an amount Greenpeace claims could help 230 million of the “most vulnerable people on Earth”.
With multiple threats looming over our fishing industry, from IUU fishing and climate change, Bethan Grylls interviews Adam Brennan, Thai Union’s Group Director for Sustainability, on what the company is doing to ensure responsibly sourced produce.
In a letter to Government, 21 of the UK’s major food companies are calling for more stringent regulation to ban imports of food produced from deforestation, reports BBC News.
The report, by Greenpeace, suggested that supermarkets could reduce plastic by 35 percent by changing the packaging for just 13 categories of popular groceries.
Greenpeace urged the supermarket giant to stop buying meat from companies involved in Amazon deforestation, and Tesco has now called on Government to make deforestation-free food a policy.
Getting ahead of the trend with many UK supermarkets as they move to more sustainable modes of operation, Iceland has announced it aims to be plastic free by 2023.