Environmental Impacts of World's Largest Food Companies Behind
The Brands' Oxfam Report Evaluates Social, Environmental Impacts
Of World's Largest Food Companies – Huffington Post 2/26/13
After 18 months of research, Oxfam America, an organization that
aims to reduce poverty and injustice worldwide, has released a
new report and launched a website that measures how the 10
largest food companies worldwide perform on food justice issues.
The "Behind The Brands" report evaluates the companies according
to seven criteria: women, small-scale farmers, farm workers,
water, land, climate change and transparency. "The bottom line
is simple: They could do better. A lot better," reads the
website homepage. The 10 companies Oxfam scores are: Associated
British Foods, Coca Cola, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg, Mars,
Mondelez, Nestlé, Pepsico and Unilever. These companies combined
together make $1 billion per day, according to Oxfam. The report
doesn't paint a very encouraging portrait of the global food
system. The compan