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18 May 2006

As we revealed in early April, McDonald's have been implicated in the clearance of the Amazon rainforest to grow soya for animal feed and, thanks to the thousands of emails and letters you sent, they're talking to us about how they can get out of the Amazon.

KFC, however, are a different story. Using a secret recipe of illegal deforestation, land clearing and slavery, KFC continue to buy chickens from their suppliers that have been fed on soya from the Amazon.

The chicken you eat at KFC is fed on soya grown in deforested areas of the Amazon basin and exported into Europe.


Get active If you think that KFC isn't quite so finger lickin' good any more, tell them what you think about their role in rainforest destruction. Email David Fitzjohn, KFC's Managing Director for Europe (clcik on above link), to demand that KFC stop selling chicken fed on Amazon soya because fast food shouldn't cost the Earth.

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it only takes 30 seconds to click the 'send' button and make a diferance.


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Beau Baconguis writing from the Philippines. For a moment imagine with me a tropical island named Rapu Rapu. It is surrounded by turquoise water filled with fish and other marine life, which the residents rely on for their livelihoods. Now imagine an open pit mine extracting a range of different metals and then rinsing them in cyanide and mercury pools on that island. That is what we are dealing with here in the Philippines.


Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn’t ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

-Lin Yutang




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Stop Icelandic Whaling
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Iceland is a stunning, pristine land that attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists each year, many of them to go whale watching in the clear arctic waters. Greenpeace has launched a "Whale tourism pledge" -- a promise to visit Iceland if the government stops whaling.

With every tourist worth an average of US$ 1,169 to the Icelandic economy, the tens of thousands of pledges to date represent more than 100 million USD in potential tourist revenue for Iceland -- against a commercial whaling programme which was worth less than 4 million USD per annum in its prime in the 1980s, and is today effectively worthless.

Help convince Iceland that whales are worth more alive than dead: take the pledge and send the message below.
(click on above link to do so)

More than 90,000 people have already taken the pledge.


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Bottom trawling involves dragging huge, heavy nets along the sea floor. Large metal plates and rubber wheels attached to these nets move along the bottom and crush nearly everything in their path. All evidence indicates that deep water life forms are very slow to recover from such damage, taking decades to hundreds of years - if they recover at all.

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