Udder-ly Cruel
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on 2010-08-31 07:07:17
Topic :Corporate Greed
Please support 38 Degrees campaign to stop companies in the UK from building huge ‘mega-dairies’ in Lincolnshire.
The cows are kept inside all year round and they aren’t even fed on grass – this helps produce as much milk as possible and therefore as much profit as possible.
This is most definitely cruel to the cows and should these ‘mega-dairies’ become popular then they will put the smaller family-farms out of business.
Let’s join forces and put pressure on the Lincolnshire Council and Councillors to stop these mega-dairies from being built. Add your name to the 38 Degrees petition now – it only takes a few minutes.
38 Degrees have many other great campaigns that could do with your support also. Check them out!
Curse of the Black Gold
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on 2008-09-05 11:21:39
Topic :Corporate Greed
For 50 years, multinational oil companies have been pumping billions of gallons of oil from beneath the Niger Delta. Nigeria now produces 2.1 million barrels per day, and has the second-largest reserve in the world. But pollution and poverty plague the land, while the government colludes with corporations to wallow in cash while the average Niger Deltan lives on less than a dollar a day.
Victory in India!
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on 2008-08-21 13:24:22
Topic :Corporate Greed
In a victory for another community in India, Coca-Cola has closed another water-guzzling bottling plant, this one in Uttar Pradesh. Anita was scandalised by Coca-Cola's activities in India and allied with the India Resource Center to expose the corporation's shameless exploitation of rural communities in India. But the fight is not over.
Boardroom Murder
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2005-09-22 00:41:41
Topic :Corporate Greed
Oh dear! Oh dear! After reading this posting on the Sierra Club website, I am feeling starved for good corporate words, deeds and most important of all, actions. Please, please, please send me, via the comments facility, any examples of what you have experienced that makes you a tad more optimistic about the positive change in corporate behaviour.
The Corporation is a Psychopath
Posted By MIE on 2004-12-10 16:08:58
Topic :Corporate Greed
To find the solutions to the world’s problems, first we need to understand the causes. Part of the answer may be found in Joe Bakan’s recently published “the Corporation” where he makes the following observations.
“Over the last 150 years the corporation has risen from relative obscurity to become the world’s dominant economic institution. Today, corporations govern our lives. They determine what we eat, what we watch, what we wear, where we work, and what we do. We are inescapably surrounded by their culture, iconography, and ideology. And, like the church and monarchy in other times, they posture as infallible and omnipotent, glorifying themselves in imposing buildings and elaborate displays. Increasingly, corporations dictate the decisions of their supposed overseers in government and control domains of society once firmly embedded in the public sphere.”
20 Years of Injustice
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2004-12-01 18:38:33
Topic :Corporate Greed
On the night of Dec. 3, 1984, the very worst industrial accident in the history of our planet occured on the fringes of a shantytown called Bhopal in India. Two decades later, the Dow Corporation -- which purchased Union Carbide in 2001 -- still refuses to take responsibility for the disaster, to clean up the toxic mess left behind, or to compensate the victims and their families for tens of thousands of deaths, injuries, and deformed generations of children.
Desperate Times in Bangladesh
Posted By Anita on 2004-08-10 03:40:29
Topic :Corporate Greed
When I was in Bangladesh earlier this year, I met dozens of garment workers, most of whom live in utter poverty despite the fact that they produce high-ticket clothing for major corporations like Disney. Now those same workers are facing an even bigger disaster...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed." -- Eisenhower
