They tried to silence us.
Yum! Brands,
owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, unleashed its legal power to try to
prevent us from using our power as shareholders. But we
stood strong and we won’t back down until rainforests are safe from
the fast-food giant’s greed.
Multi-billion dollar fast-food conglomerate Yum! Brands has one
of the industry's weakest anti-deforestation policies. Its
reckless sourcing of palm oil and other ingredients have horrific
consequences for wildlife and the climate -- and could even spur the
next global pandemic.
Now, after all the excuses, smokescreens, and greenwashing
attempts, Yum! will finally have to listen to us. In just
three weeks, we have an opportunity to hold the corporation to
account over its destructive ways -- and we urgently need
your help to make sure it doesn't go to waste!
We're crashing Yum!'s AGM to present your signatures along a hard
hitting no-deforestation shareholder proposal. Your pressure
will convince shareholders that deforestation is bad for business --
and force Yum! into long-overdue rainforest-saving
action.
Demand
KFC and Pizza Hut take deforestation off their menu!
Vladimir, deforestation for cheap fast-food ingredients has
driven endangered animals like orangutans, pygmy elephants and
Sumatran rhinos to the brink of extinction. It's caused devastating
wildfires in the Amazon and Indonesia and released tonnes of carbon
into the atmosphere. And now experts are saying it might
make pandemics like COVID-19 more likely to happen.
And still, knowing all this, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco
Bell can't -- or won't -- prove their palm oil, beef, soy, and paper
packaging are sustainably sourced. CEOs talk a green game,
but who knows how many millions of trees are being slashed and
burned behind the scenes?
Last year, we traveled to Yum!'s Kentucky HQ to present our
proposal for much-needed transparency on forests. When it got one in
every three votes, Yum! responded -- by trying to ban us from doing
the same thing this year. But our people power beat all their legal
brass. Now we've got one more chance -- and we have to make
it count.
There's a big difference this year: the pandemic means we can't
confront Yum!'s bosses in person. So it's extra important to
have your signatures on our side to make the biggest impression on
both shareholders and the board.
Please,
will you add your name to save our forests, the last orangutans and
prevent the next pandemic?
With nobody to hold them accountable, corporations like
Yum! will keep exploiting our natural world to the point of
collapse. It's up to us to show them that when rainforests
burn, we all lose.
And you've already shown you're up to the task. Pressure
from SumOfUs members like you has gotten some of the world's most
powerful corporations to take deforestation seriously --
like Pepsi, which radically overhauled its palm oil sourcing policy
this year after over one million of you called it out. Or Lindt,
which committed to an ambitious zero-deforestation policy for its
cocoa after you and I exposed the rainforest destruction behind its
fancy wrapping.
With your help, KFC and Pizza Hut will finally take deforestation
off the menu. But there isn't much time left to act. On behalf of
rainforests everywhere, can you join us?
