Cargill Report Citations

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Endnotes:

  1. U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Nov. 6, 2017, CFTC Orders Cargill, Inc. to Pay a $10 Million Civil Monetary Penalty for Providing Inaccurate Mid-Market Marks on Swaps, Which Concealed Cargill’s Full Markup, in Violation of Swap Dealer Business Conduct and Reporting Requirements, and for Failing to Supervise Swap Dealer Employees, Accessed Jan 28, 2019, https://www. cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7640-17.
  2. Painter, Kristen Leigh, Major executive shuffle at Cargill: Dines appointed CFO as Smits heads to Asia, Minnesota Star Tribune, OCTOBER 30, 2018, http://www.startribune.com/major-executive-shuffle-at-cargilldines-appointed-cfo-as-smits-heads-to-asia/499025511/.
  3. USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, Cargill Meat Solutions Recalls Ground Beef Products due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination, Aug 23, 2018, https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/FSIS-Content/ internet/main/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2018/recall-069-2018-release; US Department of Agriculture, Cargill Meat Solutions Recalls Ground Beef Products due to Possible E. coli O26 Contamination, Sep 19, 2018, https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2018/recall-081-2018-release.
  4. Forbes, Cargill-Macmillan Family, 2016 AMERICA’S RICHEST FAMILIES NET WORTH, June 29, 2016, https://www.forbes.com/profile/cargill-macmillan1/#11b1909323b6.
  5. Mighty Earth, January 31, 2019, https://mightyearth.org/cargill_timeline.
  6. Eizenstat, Stuart E., President Carter: The White House Years, St. Martin’s Press, Apr 24, 2018.
  7. Kneen, Brewster, Invisible Giant Cargill and its Transnational Strategies, Pluto Press; Second edition, March 13, 2015.
  8. Watson, Fiona, 2018, Protect the lone Amazonian tribesman. He deserves to live in peace., July 27, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/27/protect-uncontaced-tribes-amazon-humanity.
  9. Meyer, G. (2019, Jun1 13). Cargill warns goal of halting deforestation will be missed. Retrieved from Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/a67df690-8def-11e9- a1c1-51bf8f989972
  10. Mendes, Karla, and Pontes, Nadia, Indigenous land, culture at stake in Brazil election — experts, Reuters, October 26, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/ us-brazil-election-landrights-deforestat/indigenousland-culture-at-stake-in-brazil-election-expertsidUSKCN1N0241.
  11. Keating, Dave, The Paris Climate Agreement Survived Trump. Can It Survive Brazil’s Bolsonaro?, Forbes, October 24, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/ davekeating/2018/10/24/the-paris-climate-agreementsurvived-trump-can-it-survive-brazils-bolsonaro.
  12. Climate Home News, Bolsonaro has made grim threats to the Amazon and its people, August 10, 2018, http://www. climatechangenews.com/2018/10/08/bolsonaro-madegrim-threats-amazon-people.
  13. Thoror, Ishan, How Brazil’s Bolsonaro Threatens the Planet, Washington Post, October, 19, 2018, https://www. washingtonpost.com/world/2018/10/19/how-brazilsbolsonaro-threatens-planet.
  14. Telesur, Brazil: Indigenous Parliamentary Front Unites Against Bolsonaro, October 6, 2018, https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/BrazilIndigenous-Parliamentary-Front-Unites-AgainstBolsonaro-20181006-0028.html.
  15. Climate Home News, August 10, 2018.
  16. Maisonnave, Fabiano, Amazon at risk from Bolsonaro’s grim attack on the environment, The Guardian, October 9, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/ environment/2018/oct/09/brazils-bolsonaro-wouldunleash-a-war-on-the-environment.
  17. The Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture, Accessed January 28, 2019, http://www. coalizaobr.com.br/home/index.php/en/sobre-acoalizao-2/who-we-are/participantes.
  18. Thoror, Ishan, October, 19, 2018
  19. New York Declaration on Forests: Goal 2, https:// nydfglobalplatform.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ NYDF_Declaration.pdf.
  20. Cargill CEO Announces Major Action on Forests, September 23, 2014, http://www.forestheroes.org/ breaking-cargill-ceo-announces-major-action-onforests/.
  21. Oil Seed and Grain News, Accessed January 28, 2019, http://www.oilseedandgrain.com/soy-facts.
  22. Vergara, Walter et al., The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America, World Resources Institute, October, 2016.
  23. Farm Animal Investmernt Risk and Return, n.d., Cerrado Manifesto Statement of Support, Accessed January 28, 2019, https://cerradostatement.fairr.org/signatories/; Mighty Earth, 2017, Still At It, May, http://www. mightyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/StillAtIt. pdf.
  24. Union of Concerned Scientists, 2019, Tropical Deforestation and Global Warming, January 28, https:// www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/solutions/stopdeforestation/tropical-deforestation-and-1.html.
  25. World Resources Institute, 2016, Degraded Land in Latin America Could Yield Billions if Restored, Shows New Report, October 28, https://www.wri.org/news/2016/10/ release-degraded-land-latin-america-could-yieldbillions-if-restored-shows-new-report.
  26. Consumer Goods Forum, 2017, Twenty-three Global Companies Pledge to Helping Tackle Soy-Driven Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado, October 25, http:// media.theconsumergoodsforum.com/twenty-threeglobal-companies-pledge-to-helping-tackle-soy-drivendeforestation-in-brazils-cerrado/.
  27. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, 2010, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010: Extent of forest resources, http://www.fao.org/ docrep/013/i1757e/i1757e02.pdf.
  28. Terazono, Emiko, 2014, Welcome to the world of Big Chocolate, December 18, https://www.ft.com/ content/80e196cc-8538-11e4-ab4e-00144feabdc0.
  29. Mighty Earth, 2017, CHOCOLATE’S DARK SECRET, September, https://mightyearth.org/wp-content/ uploads/2017/09/chocolates_dark_secret_english_web. pdf.
  30. Brannon, Keith, 2015, 2013/14 Survey Research on Child Labor in the West African Cocoa Sector, Tulane University: School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, http://www.childlaborcocoa.org/index. php/2013-14-final-report.
  31. World Cocoa Foundation, 2018, Remarks: Child Labor Cocoa Coordinating Group (CLCCG) Annual Meeting, July 17, https://www.worldcocoafoundation.org/ blog/2018-child-labor-cocoa-coordinating-group-8thannual-meeting-remarks.
  32. International Rights Advocates, 2018, COURT OF APPEALS FINDS NESTLE AND CARGILL CAN BE LIABLE UNDER ALIEN TORT STATUTE FOR CHILD SLAVERY IN COTE D’IVOIRE, October 23, http://www. iradvocates.org/press-release/nestle/court-appeals-findsnestle-and-cargill-can-be-liable-under-alien-tort-statute.
  33. Potter, Leslie, 2008, Dayak resistance to oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, July, https:// www.habitatadvocate.com.au/?p=14594.
  34. Al-Mahmood, Syed Zain, 2015, Palm-Oil Migrant Workers Tell of Abuses on Malaysian Plantations, Wall Street Journal, July 16, https://www.wsj.com/articles/ palm-oil-migrant-workers-tell-of-abuses-on-malaysianplantations-1437933321; Rukmantara, Arie, 2006, Government to sue firms over forest fires, Jakarta Post, September 2; Wakker, Erik, April, 2006, The Kalimantan Border Oil Palm Mega-Project, AIDEnvironement.
  35. The Jakarta Post, 2014, Malaysian firm fined, executives get prison for role in forest fires, Septmeber 11, http:// www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/09/11/malaysianfirm-fined-executives-get-prison-role-forest-fires.html.
  36. Koplitz, Shannon N, and et al., September 19 2016, Public health impacts of the severe haze in Equatorial Asia in September–October 2015: demonstration of a new framework for informing fire management strategies to reduce downwind smoke exposure, Environmental Research Letters Volume 11, Number 9, https://iopscience.iop.org/ article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094023.
  37. Forest Heroes, 2014, IOI: The Worst Company You’ve Never Heard Of, August 14, http://www.forestheroes. org/ioi-the-worst-company-youve-never-heard-of/; Jacobson, Philip, 2016, Malaysian palm oil giant IOI suspended from RSPO, March 25 March, https://news. mongabay.com/2016/03/malaysian-palm-oil-giant-ioisuspended-from-rspo/.
  38. Rainforest Action Network. (2011, April 27). IOI Group: Stop Undermining Indigenous Rights. Retrieved from The Understory: https://www.ran.org/the-understory/ ioi_group_stop_undermining_indigenous_rights/
  39. Taufik, Kiki, 2016, Unilever palm oil supplier must suspend all plantation expansion to save reputation, The Guardian, April 9, https://www.theguardian.com/ sustainable-business/2016/apr/09/ioi-malaysian-palmoil-company-unilever-mars-kellogg-rspo-deforestation.
  40. Greenpeace, R. F. (2017, May). Policy and Implementation Milestones for IOI Group. Retrieved from https://www.ran.org/wpcontent/uploads/rainforestactionnetwork/ pages/17714/attachments/original/1494891149/ IOIPolicyImplementationMilestones_20170510. pdf?1494891149
  41. Friends of the Earth, 2017, Agribusiness Giant Cargill Suspends Contract with Controversial Guatemalan Palm Oil Producer Over Environmental and Human Rights Violations, December 19, https://foe.org/ news/agribusiness-giant-cargill-suspends-contractcontroversial-guatemalan-palm-oil-producerenvironmental-human-rights-violations/.
  42. Cargill. (2019, February). Cargill Commitment on Human Rights. Retrieved from Cargill: https://www. cargill.com/doc/1432136529974/cargill-commitmenton-human-rights.pdf
  43. Friends of the Earth, Forest Heroes, SumOfUs, 2013, Commodity Crimes: Illicit Land Grabs, Illegal Palm Oil, and Endangered Orangutans, November 27.
  44. Cargill, Inc. n.d., Beef North America, Accessed January 28, 2018, https://www.cargill.com/meat-poultry/beef-na.
  45. US EPA Enforcement and Compliance History (ECHO)
  46. The Pulitzer Prizes, (2010), The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting. Retrieved January 28, 2019, from https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/michaelmoss-and-members-staff
  47. Moss, Michael, 2009, The Burger That Shattered Her Life, New York Times, October 3, https://www.nytimes. com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html.
  48. Moss, Michael, 2009, Safety Plan Not Followed, New York Times, October 3, https://www.nytimes. com/interactive/projects/documents/food-safetydocuments#p=15&a=542.
  49. Avella, Joe, 2017, Here’s how McDonald’s hamburgers are actually made, Business Insider, February 2, https:// www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-hamburgersmenu-beef-meat-cargill-calories-nutrition-2017-1; Hamblin, James, 2014, Come Tour the McNugget Factory, The Atlantic, February 4, https://www.theatlantic.com/ health/archive/2014/02/come-tour-the-mcnuggetfactory/283633/.
  50. Union of Concerned Scientists, 2019, Tropical Deforestation and Global Warming, January 28, https:// www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/solutions/stopdeforestation/tropical-deforestation-and-1.html.
  51. Redman, Russell, 2018, Ahold Delhaize USA to build new meat packaging plant, Supermarket News, October 15, https://www.supermarketnews.com/meat/aholddelhaize-usa-build-new-meat-packaging-plant; Winsight Grocery Business, 2018, Officials Break Ground on Ahold Delhaize Meat Facility, October 12, https://www. winsightgrocerybusiness.com/fresh-food/officials-breakground-ahold-delhaize-meat-facility.
  52. Sysco, Inc., 2017, Sysco Corporation Honors 2017 Top Suppliers, October 30, http://investors.sysco. com/annual-reports-and-sec-filings/news-releas es/2017/10-30-2017-210004288.
  53. Forum for the Future, n.d., The Protein Challenge 2040, Accessed January 28, 2018, https://www. forumforthefuture.org/protein-challenge.
  54. Ahold Delhaize, n.d., Human rights, Stakeholder interests, Accessed January 28, 2019, https://www.aholddelhaize. com/en/about-us/stakeholder-interests/human-rights/.
  55. Redman, Russell, 2018; Winsight Grocery Business, 2018.
  56. Gross, Anna Sophie, 2018, Soy giant Louis Dreyfus pledges deforestation-free supply chain, July 16, https:// news.mongabay.com/2018/07/soy-giant-louis-dreyfuspledges-deforestation-free-supply-chain/.
  57. Jun Lyu, Chairman, COFCO Corporation, 2019, We can feed the world in a sustainable way, but we need to act now, January 24, https://www.cofcointernational. com/newsroom/jun-lyu-we-can-feed-the-world-in-asustainable-way-but-we-need-to-act-now/.
  58. https://www.ft.com/content/a67df690-8def-11e9-a1c1- 51bf8f989972
  59. https://www.cargill.com/story/together-we-can-protectforests-and-preserve-land-in-brazil
  60. https://cerradostatement.fairr.org; https://cdn.fairr.org/ wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/07/26122358/CerradoManifesto-SoS-Terms-of-Reference-updated-July-2018. pdf
  61. https://d3nehc6yl9qzo4.cloudfront.net/downloads/ cerradomanifesto_september2017_atualizadooutubro. pdf
  62. https://www.noticiasagricolas.com.br/noticias/ agronegocio/237742-cargill-divulga-carta-aosprodutores-brasileiros-e-se-diz-contraria

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  1. Cover: Sasin School of Management
  2. Inside Front Cover: Jim Wickens / Ecostorm
  3. Page 3: Mighty Earth
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  5. Page 6: Mighty Earth
  6. Page 7: Simon Mayer
  7. Page 8: Protesters: Mighty Earth; Sizzler sign: Jeremy Brooks; fish kill: Mighty Earth; Packaged meat in supermarket: US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  8. Page 9: Big Mac: t-mizo; fish kill: Soibe / WikiMedia Commons
  9. Page 10 Palm oil nuts: Mighty Earth; shaking hands: Best Picko; dead fish: Natasha C. Dunn; Uzbek woman picking cotton: Maximum Exposure PR; dead fish: Rafael Saldaña
  10. Page 11: Supermarket meat shelves: USDA; Safeway exterior: Mike Mozart; River in Oklahoma: Toni Klemm / Flickr
  11. Page 12: Pork processing plant: USDA; Cargill Beef Plant: Bidgee / WikiMedia Commons; Brimbob: AWG97 / WikiMedia Commons; Food Safety Inspection Service inspector: USDA
  12. Page 13: Department of Labor Sign: Matt Popovich; Congreso Nacional Argentino: Agustingagliardone / WikiMedia Commons; Meat in supermarket shelves: USDA; chains and bars: Niran Phonruang
  13. Page 14: CFTC Sign: Mark Van Scyoc; Indonesian child harvesting palm fruit: Wakx / Flickr
  14. Page 15: Packaged ground beef: Hailey Godburn / KOMU News; Beardstown, Illinois fish kill: Environmental Integrity Project
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