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Otway
Pork - Telling porkies!
The RSPCA has been
forced to dropped its endorsement of Otway
Pork products and remove its Paw of Approval
from the brand. A 14
month investigation by Animal Liberation Victoria
has revealed heartbreaking animal cruelty and filthy
living conditions on RSPCA Approved Farms, with
not one of the “five freedoms” animals are entitled
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> Choose genuine
free-range meat products - see Flavour Crusader's
alt.Pork
directory - or better still, choose to avoid
meat products altogether. See Oxfam's Tips
on eating less meat. |
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Conflict
minerals in the Congo
Your mobile phone,
your jewelry, your computer, your gaming system
- they are all connected to the deadliest conflict
since World War II. The war in the Congo has seen
over 5.4 million dead and over 2 million displaced.
> Find out the
connection at Conflict
Minerals 101 and
I'm
a Mac ... and I've Got a Dirty Secret. |
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> Find out how
the largest
electronic companies rank in their efforts toward
using and investing in conflict-free minerals in
their products; and give feedback to companies behind
your brands.
> Join the email
campaign asking Nintendo (who rank lowest) to
take credible steps to ensure slave-mined minerals
are not in their gaming consoles. |
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Traffik-free
Toblerone
Stop
the Traffik are running a Toblerone
postcard campaign, asking Mondelēz
(formally Kraft, owner of Cadbury), the world’s
largest chocolate company, to give specifics
on their committment to 'sustainable cocoa'.
In 2012 Mondelēz announced that they would
invest
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The concern
is that these funds may go to simply expanding
cocoa plantations.These funds have the potential
to change the lives of children
being exploited, and to prevent children
being trafficked onto cocoa plantations in
the Ivory Coast. >
You can help by getting as many postcards
signed as possible! Order them now from australia@stopthetraffik.org.
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Quick
bites ...
- Bayer
and Syngenta are suing the European
Commission to overturn the ban on
its bee-killing
pesticides,
claiming the ban is "unjustified"
and "disproportionate".
(28/8/13) Nature
News >
Sign the petition
to tell Bayer and Syngenta to drop
their lawsuits now
- Greenpeace’s
new report, 'Certifying
Destruction' criticises the Roundtable
on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) for
allowing continued deforestation,
peatland destruction and fires to
occur (3/9/13). See how to avoid
products containing palm oil.
- NSW-based
Bega
Cheese has announced that it intends
to make an unsolicited off-market
$319 million takeover bid for Victorian-based
dairy company Warnambool
Cheese and Butter. (16/9/13) AusFoodNews
- The
Tecoma McDonald's still looks like
it's going ahead, but the local community
as part of the 'Burger
Off!' campaign are not going down
without a fight. Their city rally,
trip to McDonald's head office in
the US, and singing
"flashmob" performance
in a Melbourne food court all featured
in a recent ABC's 7.30
Report (17/9/13). Inspiring!
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