The ten food companies that pollute most in the world

The ten food companies that pollute most in the world


Are only ten, but they pollute as a nation are the big names in the food industry which, because of the harmful emissions they put into the atmosphere each year, contributing to worsen global warming.

The study, compiled by the NGO Oxfam, has been prepared through a report card that is updated periodically: the ten giant power annually produce 263.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions equal to the joint Sweden, Finland, Denmark , Norway and Iceland.

According to the report Standing on the Sidelines, which is part of the campaign Behind the Brands, the top ten of the food, when put together, could form the 25th nation in the world for pollution: it is not only greenhouse gas emissions and pollution from fossil fuels, but also to contamination of land and groundwater, heavy use of fertilizers, deforestation and irregular disposal of waste.

According to data from Oxfam, about half of the emissions resulting from the production of agricultural raw materials for processing: many of these are not covered by the standards of production set by companies to reduce pollution.

Kellogg's in the top ten most polluting the food industries

Companies and green washing. The Queen is Kellogg's: the American company that produces cereals, cookies and snacks. In the same list appears Associated British Foods, Coca-Cola, Danone, General Mills, Mars, Mondelez International, Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever.

According to Oxfam, these ten companies:

"They can not use their experience, leadership, and power to transform the industry and push for climate action in which the world needs."

But often, multinational companies in question, they declared ambitious goals with respect to reducing the impact of its production activities: the so-called green washing. Why, if some of these such as Unilever are committed in pursuing the objectives stated above, the companies from which they source that constantly violate environmental standards.

In particular, Kellogg's and General Mills, who are accused by Oxfam to "continue to tolerate in their own supply chain massive deforestation rates."

The most serious cases documented, in fact, relate to a company that supplies palm oil to the two multinational company which, according to the report, would be responsible for forest fires that have produced greenhouse gases equivalent to the annual emissions of 10.3 million cars.

The consequences. The consequences of a chain of kind are devastating: fossil fuels, the use of fertilizers, deforestation, manipulation of the production of raw materials deplete the soil, pollute the air and groundwater, causing untold damage to the environment and growth exponential of poverty.

According to Oxfam, to really affect and mitigate severe damage, these companies should cut their emissions by 80 million tons by 2020.