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Title: Do You Know Where Your Shoes Have Been?
Source:
Utne
URL Source: http://www.utne.com/Environment/Do- ... here-Your-Shoes-Have-Been.aspx
Published: Jun 12, 2009
Author: Keith Goetzman
Post Date: 2009-06-12 18:19:19 by Clitora
Keywords: None
Views: 956
Comments: 16
Do You Know Where Your Shoes Have Been? 6/4/2009 1:46:12 PM by Keith Goetzman Tags: Environment, forests, deforestation, Amazon, cattle, leather, sustainable business, business ethics Timberland bootWe’ve previously written about “The True Cost of Leather,” citing the Ecologist’s reporting about toxic tanneries in Bangladesh. It turns out there’s even more to the story if you follow the shoe industry’s supply chain to Brazil—and it might change the way you feel about the shoes you’re wearing right now. Greenpeace this week announced the release of a report, “Slaughtering the Amazon,” that calls out several major shoe makers for using leather from cattle farms in the Amazon, which are gobbling up rainforest at an alarming rate and hence driving greenhouse gas emissions. Among the makers singled out in the report are Nike, Adidas, Reebok, and two brands that have a place in my own closet: Timberland and Clark’s. I specifically sought out the Timberland brand because of the company’s stated environmental consciousness. Grist’s Tom Philpott notes that the report “is really about the perils of using state policy to prop up global, corporate-dominated trade” and notes three clear themes: The expansion of cattle production in Brazil drives Amazon deforestation—and deforestation in turn drives climate change. The Brazilian government and the World Bank actively support the expansion of the nation’s cattle sector. and The real beneficiaries of such policies are not Brazilians. Indeed, labor conditions on Amazonian cattle farms are harrowing—and often tantamount to slavery, Greenpeace shows. Rather, it’s the companies that buy the products cheap and sell them dear. Greenpeace allows that some of the companies named may not in fact know that they are using leather from unsustainable Amazon farms, due in part to a convoluted supply chain that effectively “launders” leather supplies from criminal or “dirty” sources. But that doesn’t let them off the hook, it argues, and suggests that people write to the companies and urge them to clean up their acts. Timberland and Clark’s, my letter is in the mail. (Prologue: Timberland spokeswoman Kate King writes that “Timberland wants to engage with Greenpeace on the issue of tropical deforestation” in a response on Greenpeace’s blog.)
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#1. To: Clitora (#0)
Greenpeace? Utne magazine? Sure, whatever.
Can you refute this statement? Destruction of the Amazon, the world’s most important forest carbon store, is being driven by the cattle sector. The Brazilian Amazon has the greatest annual average deforestation by area of anywhere in the world. The cattle sector is the key driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. According to the Brazilian government: ‘Cattle are responsible for about 80% of all deforestation’ in the Amazon region. In recent years, on average one hectare of Amazon rainforest has been lost to cattle ranchers every 18 seconds. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/slaughtering-the-amazon
http://www.samuelcraven.com/work/susan-boyle-is-isis/
Nope. Got our own goddamned problems at the moment. Let Brazil settle its own hash.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. LOL Got Solution?
http://www.samuelcraven.com/work/susan-boyle-is-isis/
Yeah. Pour yourself a cold beer.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. Alcohol is a short term solution. I am thinking of more long term goals. Plus I don't drink much since I got out of a DUI.
http://www.samuelcraven.com/work/susan-boyle-is-isis/
Alcohol may be the only solution for those looking for "long term solutions' seeing as how we only have a short term future to look forward to. Cheers.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. Got our own goddamned problems at the moment. One of the better posts I've read in a while. Yeah, our country is fucked with a capital F and we're supposed to worry about shit in Brazil?!
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
I had a friend that had been lissening to far to much of that twaddle and assaulted me with the fact that the Amazon was the "lungs of the planet." Like we're running out of oxygen because they cut down the big trees there. He was in a palpable panic. I tried to tell him that you can fly north for hours and hours and hours from Rio and see nothing but trees, but there was nothing that I could do to quench his anxiety. My friend is no longer with us, by the way. He committed suicide.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. Sorry to hear about that. One of my best friends committed suicide a decade ago for reasons no one really understood and set fourth a chain of events that resulted in a murder/suicide involving his parents last year. There's only one surviving member of the immediate family now, and it left him a wreck the last time I saw him.
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
ping
Ignorance is bliss, ain't it?
http://www.samuelcraven.com/work/susan-boyle-is-isis/
I am fully aware of the deforestation taking place in the Amazon basin. I am also aware of how environmental groups funded and staffed by globalist foundations use these depredations to squeeze money from those on their lists employing a huge network of phone banks across the country to fatten their coffers. Their aim is to seize all our resources and put them under lock and key out of reach of private industry and agriculture. They are the enemy of our sovereignty, and they are my blood enemy as well.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. Whoa there. Phone banks? Should we just forget about it and let them destroy it so as not to disturb them?
http://www.samuelcraven.com/work/susan-boyle-is-isis/
Where they get their dough from the rubes. Yes. Forget about it. Concern yourself with your country which is being stolen from you.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. Being? I'm just waiting for the populace to figure it out. Some people won't be able to handle it. The matrix is that strong.
http://www.samuelcraven.com/work/susan-boyle-is-isis/
Dancing Turtles and Bouncing Boobs
...that's Turtle Island.
#2. To: Turtle (#1)
#3. To: Clitora (#2)
Can you refute this statement?
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#4. To: randge (#3)
Got our own goddamned problems at the moment.
#5. To: Clitora (#4)
Got Solution?
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#6. To: randge (#5)
Pour yourself a cold beer.
#7. To: Clitora (#6)
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#8. To: randge (#3)
Nope.
#9. To: orangedog (#8)
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#10. To: randge (#9)
My friend is no longer with us, by the way. He committed suicide.
#11. To: Clitora, *Agriculture-Environment* (#0)
but the sheiks would shriek and the barons would bellow if hemp was made legal...and people became mellow
#12. To: randge (#9)
#13. To: Clitora (#12)
www.righttokeepandbeararms.com
#14. To: randge (#13)
I am also aware of how environmental groups funded and staffed by globalist foundations use these depredations to squeeze money from those on their lists employing a huge network of phone banks across the country to fatten their coffers.
#15. To: Clitora (#14)
Whoa there. Phone banks?
www.righttokeepandbeararms.com
#16. To: randge (#15)
Concern yourself with your country which is being stolen from you.
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