Posts Tagged destruction

Greenpeace stages protest at Mattel office over Barbie packaging

“Environmentalists have launched a global campaign against Mattel Inc., the world’s largest toy company, as part of a decade-long effort to force multinational corporations to purge their operations of any links to rain forest destruction.

On Tuesday, Greenpeace activists in turquoise vests rappelled down the face of the company’s 15-story headquarters in El Segundo and hung a giant banner depicting a frowning Ken doll with the message: “Barbie: it’s over. I don’t date girls that are into deforestation.”‘

Greenpeace stages protest at Mattel office over Barbie packaging via Margort Roosvelt – LA Times

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Is This Megadairy A Threat to Health and Livelihood of NW Illinois Residents?

“My guest today is Matthew Alschuler, press agent for HOMES [Helping Others Maintain Environmental Standards] Jo Daviess County, in far NorthWest Illinois. Welcome to OpEdNews, Matthew. Your organization is involved in something big right now. Would you like to tell our readers about it?

Sure! In December of 2007, a number of my neighbors learned that A.J. Bos, a California millionaire, was planning to build the largest industrial dairy east of the Mississippi near our homes. Jo Daviess County is dotted with traditional family farms, some of which have been in the same family for over 150 years. Agriculture and tourism are our county’s main industries, and this facility, with its 11,000 cows on a few hundred acres, threatened to destroy them both.”

Is This Megadairy A Threat to Health and Livelihood of NW Illinois Residents? via Joan Brunwasser – OpEd News

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