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Cargill, worst company in the World

City, London. Fri 31 Jan 2020



 The protesters were late in arriving. Earlier I've seen a large number of security men standing around and the

 police came to talk with them, but most had actually left ten minutes before the protest actually began. As had

 another photographer who had been waiting with me.

 Presumably following police advice the main doors of the office building had been locked and notices put up

 telling workers to use the side entrance. Cargill has offices on the third floor and a grey card has been put up

 to cover their name on the board at the reception desk.

 One of the protesters lets everyone around the area know why the are protesting against Cargill

 Quite a few people stop in the area around to listen and the megaphone will certainly have been audible to

 anyone in the Cargill offices and those in the surrounding buildings, though sometimes the sound was a

 little distorted.

 Cargill is a private US company that produces buys and sells agricultural products around the world

 and has been accused of human rights abuses, land grabbing, accelerating deforestation as well as its

 activities producing huge quantities of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide and methane from animal agriculture.
     
 

 
     
 Cargill sources cocoa from plantations in Ivory Coast - Nestle is its main customer. A recent French TV investigation revealed the use of child labour

 and the company and Nestles were charged with this back in 2005.

 

 Cargill exports a quarter of US grain and supplies over a fifth of the US domestic meat market, it is the

  largest importer of meat from Argentina and the largest poultry producer in Thailand.

 Prootesters from London Climate Save wer joined by two from Extinction Rebellion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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