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[ [link removed]- ]Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest being destroyed to make space for
agriculture. On the left side, lush green trees are visible. On the right
side, earth diggers are clearing barren land. Plumes of smoke are visible.

John,

One billionaire family is about to rip open the Amazon for even
more profit.

The Cargill-Macmillan family owns the world’s biggest agriculture company,
Cargill Inc. They’re behind some of the worst destruction of the Amazon
rainforest, Indigenous land grabs, and have even been linked to child
slavery.

Now, this toxic corporation is sneakily backtracking on its commitments to
protect the Amazon rainforest under the Soy Moratorium – one of the most
effective instruments to save the Amazon - to buy even more soy tainted
with deforestation.

It thought nobody would notice. But we know, and we’re going to turn the
spotlight on the notoriously secretive Cargill family like never before.

If all of us chip in just a little, we can build a crack team to expose
the Cargills and Amazon destruction by other agribusiness giants, counter
Big Ag’s lobbyists, and double down on our campaigns in the media and with
local partners ahead of Brazil’s global climate summit. We could target
key lawmakers, family shareholders, AGMs – and take the pressure to
boiling point until we win. But we need to raise the funds to pull it off.

If we move fast, we can change the fate of the Amazon rainforest and wild
places everywhere. Can you chip in to help?



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Thanks to the Soy Moratorium, deforestation for soybeans in Brazil’s
Amazon was drastically reduced.

Agribusiness giants like Cargill voluntarily agreed to not source soybeans
from land deforested after 2008 – and this groundbreaking agreement
worked. Over the last 18 years, an estimated 4 million acres of the Amazon
have been saved from deforestation for soybeans.

This could all be about to change.

Cargill indicated in its latest sustainability report that it would adopt
2020 as the cut-off year for sourcing soy from deforested land. That’s
MILLIONS of deforested acres that Cargill could now buy soy from,
benefitting agribusiness interests that are pushing to destroy this
Amazon-saving agreement.

If Cargill starts ignoring the agreement, others could soon follow,
exposing 6.2 million acres of the Amazon for soy production with
devastating knock-on effects for the people and wildlife that call the
Amazon home.

We can’t let that happen.

With all of us chipping in what we can, we can build a massive
people-powered campaign to turn up the heat on Cargill and amp up the
global call to save the Amazon ahead of Brazil’s climate summit. From
bringing Indigenous activists to meet with decision-makers and the media
to overwhelming companies' AGMs with attention-grabbing stunts, to getting
behind closed doors to counteract their lobbying, our campaigns work when
we have enough money to see them through to the end.

Can you chip in to change the fate of the Amazon?



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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for
people and the planet.



  Thanks for all that you do,  
Miriam and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed]- ]Cargill sinaliza saída da Moratória da Soja, pacto de proteção à
Amazônia Reportér Brasil (in Portuguese) 10 February 2025

[ [link removed]- ]Cargill weakens Amazon no-deforestation vow, raising concerns about
wider backslide Mongabay 13 February 2025

[ [link removed]- ]Protection deal for Amazon rainforest in peril as big business turns up
heat The Guardian 03 December 2024

[ [link removed]- ]The Secretive Cargill Billionaires And Their Family Tree Forbes 22
September 2011

[ [link removed]- ]Cargill: the company feeding the world by helping destroy the
planet Unearthed 25 November 2020

 

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