Cargill teach-in, dinner, and brainstorm Thursday May 28th, 8:00pm

Did you know Cargill, the largest privately held company in the US, is
located only a few miles from here in Wayzata, MN?

Over the years Cargill, has been responsible for a number of environmental
and human rights violations from the destruction of Brazilian rainforests
for soybean fields to the egregious practice of using child slaves in
their West African cocoa plantations. Now, Cargill turns their focus to
highly lucrative palm oil. Much of this oil is sourced from Indonesian
palm plantations which are rapidly displacing indigenous people and
destroying some of the last habitat for orangutans.

Join Levana Saxon of the Rainforest Action Network This Thursday as she
talks with us about the deforestation, displacement, and climate
change our neighbor Cargill is responsible for. Our hope is that over
dinner, we will not only discuss what awful things they are doing, but
what clever actions people who live near Cargill can take to really make
an impact.



Join us!

Thursday May 28 8pm-10pm
Dinner 8pm
Discussion 8:30

Walker Community Church
3104 16th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55407


Cargill controls a dozen soy and palm oil plantations in Indonesia and
Malaysia. The agribusiness giant, headquartered in Wayzata, is the
fourth-largest exporter of palm oil from Malaysia and holds 14,000 acres
of plantations - all on newly cleared land - throughout Indonesia and
Papua New Guinea. With demand for biofuels on the rise in recent years,
production of these oils has expanded at a rate of 2.5 million acres per
year in the tropical forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New
Guinea.

Cargill needs to stop converting the world's remaining rainforests into
factory farms and to stop the grave human rights abuses associated with
their operations.

http://ran.org/campaigns/rainforest_agribusiness/