Greenpeace Names and Shames Companies over Indonesia Paper
July 06, 2010
A KFC outlet in Jakarta. Greenpeace has accused the fast food outlet and other high-profile companies of contributing to deforestation and pushing animal species toward extinction in Indonesia by purchasing products from Sinar Mas subsidiary Asian Pulp and Paper. (JG Photo/ Afriadi Hikmal) Related articles
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384419Another reason not to eat KFC's stinking food (if I can call it that). Have you ever actually looked at the meat (if I can call it that), it's grey!! It's not chicken. It's manufactured flesh, pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics all of which end up in your body. The chickens need the constant supply antibiotics to stop them from getting diseases as they live in their own feces and never move, nor see the light of day.
Now, KFC is also (indirectly) killing virgin rain forest and endangered species. What a greedy, irresponsible, sick company. Companies like this deserve no place in today's world.
KFC is killing Indonesian rain forest! I wonder how many Indonesians actually care...
@peroblanco... but there will be no jungle left for them... maybe put them in Jakarta Zoo?
The worst crime against nature and humanity. Corporate evil. Everybody involved should be shot. I would happily pull the trigger.
You do not realize the value of what you have till its gone. A lesson to be learned for some.
Major foreign firms like Walmart and KFC are contributing to forest destruction and the loss of species like Sumatran tigers by buying from Indonesian paper giant Sinar Mas, Greenpeace said Tuesday.
It said Sinar Mas subsidiary Asia Pulp and Paper was “relentlessly trashing rainforests” and driving species to extinction in the Southeast Asian archipelago.
“Sinar Mas’s sustainability commitments’ are not worth the paper they are written on and some of the world’s best known brands are literally pulping the planet by buying from them,” Greenpeace Southeast Asia forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said in a statement.
A Greenpeace report called “How Sinar Mas is Pulping the Planet” accuses major international companies of being complicit in the rampant destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands by buying from APP.
It accused Sinar Mas of illegal logging in sensitive areas on Sumatra island, where lowland forests have been decimated by years of deforestation.
One of the areas, the Bukit Tigapuluh Forest Landscape, is home to endangered Sumatran tigers and orangutans.
The other area, Kerumutan, is covered in peatlands which are a “key defence against climate change” because they lock in carbon that is released into the atmosphere when the forest cover is removed by logging, Greenpeace said.
“Some of the forest’s peat is deeper than three metres and thus illegal to clear under Indonesian law,” Greenpeace said.
“Sinar Mas’s paper arm APP uses the logs from these rainforest areas to feed its Sumatran based pulp mills, which export pulp and paper products worldwide.”
The destruction of rainforests and peatlands is the main reason Indonesia is considered the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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