Great news:
We've scored another palm oil victory, thanks to
you!
Earlier this year, your pressure got Pepsi to change its ways and
unveil an industry-leading palm oil sourcing policy. Now you
and I are leveraging a shareholder revolution against KFC and Pizza
Hut owner Yum! Brands -- the largest fast food company in
the world -- for its weak stance on deforestation.
We crashed Yum!'s biggest meeting of the year to present
a shareholder proposal to get deforestation off the fast food
giant's menus. And despite all of Yum's efforts to silence
us, we won 35 percent of the vote -- 3 percent more than
last year!
KFC execs are shook, and it all thanks to generous donations from
SumOfUs members -- and without your continued support will
won't be able to force KFC and Yum! Brands into action.
It's all thanks to your regular
donations -- and your continued support will force
Yum! Brands and KFC into action. Would
you like to make a one-off gift to keep our rainforests safe from
Yum! Brands?
This is huge. Yum! advised against our
proposal and even had its lawyers ask the US Securities and Exchange
Commission to scrub it off the meeting agenda. But in the
end, Yum! couldn't hide the truth: more and more shareholders want
KFC and Pizza Hut to do better to protect our forests.
There’s still lots to do to save the habitat of
endangered species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers, rhinos and
pygmy elephants. If we're going to build on our victory and
force Yum! to adopt a cross-commodity policy that protects workers,
rainforests and the climate, we need to start right away.
It was your regular donations that got us this
far -- and your continued support will see us through until
KFC and Pizza Hut take long-overdue action. Would
you like to make a one-off gift to keep our rainforests safe from
Yum! Brands and other deforestation villains?
