Consumer alliance highlights a campaign of collusion by WWF, RAN and Greenpeace against Cargill
WASHINGTON, DC – Falsely claiming that American agri-business Cargill is “destroying tropical rainforests, displacing forest-dependent communities and accelerating global climate change”, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is once again playing the lead role in pressuring an American business success story to sign up for its radical, anti-Indonesia agenda, propagated by a cabal of Western NGOs and ahead of the needs of vulnerable communities and hardworking consumers globally. The Consumers Alliance for Global Prosperity (CAGP), as part of its ongoing advocacy campaign to highlight the defamatory campaigns of environmentalists against companies like Cargill that source products from Southeast Asia, issued the following comment:
“It’s no secret that RAN’s latest charade is part of a coordinated campaign by NGOs to pressure companies to cease sourcing from Indonesian and other Asian suppliers in order to achieve their global environmental goals. RAN’s partners in this campaign are Greenpeace and WWF. A close examination of WWF will reveal that the goals of RAN and Greenpeace, the special interest groups at the forefront of an extremist environmental movement, are aligned. A closer examination of WWF is now warranted,” said Andrew Langer, spokesman for CAGP.
RAN’s historical record of unfounded claims is well-documented. First, it has continued to tout much-hyped findings that Indonesia is now the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, for which the organization blames the country’s vital agricultural and forestry industries. In reality, Indonesia actually ranks approximately 15th. RAN has even gone so far as to use children as political pawns, attacking children’s book publishers and pressuring parents during last year’s holiday season not to purchase certain volumes for their kids. To support their book campaign, RAN used research compiled by WWF, the same group that conjured up false data concerning the Amazon and the Himalayas to pursue its radical, neo-colonial climate change agenda. This limits access to books and raises prices, which only hurt consumers. This, unfortunately, is just another example of the “Empires of Collusion”, which aim to force companies into accepting its environmental views.
Langer continued, “Since 1985, RAN has taken on banks, car manufacturers, mining companies and basically anyone else that does not – or cannot – prescribe to its myopic environmental mindset. Its activists have had startling success, often using exaggerated information at best. WWF is the architect of this global campaign, with Greenpeace and RAN playing fiddle to their radical agenda. Whether hanging from buildings, storming boats or boycotting businesses, these groups work tirelessly to shutter liberty and opportunity. CAGP will continue to carry the banner of liberty worldwide and stand up for hardworking Western consumers and emerging market economies and their people, because we know people worldwide yearn for a better life.”