Send your message to shareholders at Nestle's AGM

Posted by jamie - 15 April 2010 at 11:39am - 39 Comments

You've emailed, called and sent Easter cards but Nestle have simply not taken enough action to stop buying palm oil and other products from those companies destroying Indonesia's rainforests. So today we're asking you to send messages in to the heart of their annual general meeting in Switzerland where the shareholders will be gathered.

Add your message on Twitter (make sure you include a #nestle tag) or comment in the window below - our campaigners and activists at the AGM are directing shareholders to see your messages on our website.

Our activities at the AGM are backed up by new evidence we're releasing today which shows how Sinar Mas - the palm oil giant which has repeatedly commitments to end its role in deforestation - has in the past few weeks been clearing areas of valuable rainforest and peatlands in Kalimantan, including areas of orang-utan habitat.

Furthermore, we met with Nestle representatives yesterday in London and unfortunately the word is that they have yet to take any further action to deal with these issues and they're still buying Sinar Mas palm oil via third party suppliers such as Cargill.

As you'll know if you received an email response from Nestle, they're waiting for Cargill and Sinar Mas to report back by the end of this month which may only be a couple of weeks away, but Nestle have had several years to get on top of this problem and are still not showing signs of moving particularly quickly now.

Along with several other Greenpeace campaigners, my colleague Ian is at the AGM and has already this video from Switzerland to say thank you for everything you've done so far.

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more updates as they happen! And don't forget to send your message to Nestle's shareholders.

Shame on you Nestle shareholders if you don't take this opportunity to clean up your act and stop using palm oil from destroyed rainforests. The right decision could prove a bonus both financially as well as ethically to you.

I support Greenpeace's position and would request that you seriously consider the adverse impact that Nestlé is having by continuing its action and how easy it would be for a company of its size and influence to show a better example to the world.

Geoff Naylor
21 Birch Close,
SO21 1XE
United Kingdom

Please reconsider your investment with Nestlé until they stop trashing the planet for profit.
Let's care for the planet together.

Dear Mr Chauvet,
Thanks you for writing to me about this crucial issue.

This will be a short reply as, bascically, I agree with your views.
Liberal Democrat policy is not to renew 'Trident' for the sorts of reasons you give in your email.
We will certainly argue strongy for a review of the nuclear weapons programme, and for any Trident replacement not to go ahead.

Best wishes

Eileen Baxendale
Lib Dem PC Glasgow North East

Dear Nestlé shareholders - you have a chance to make a difference, so why don't you? Use your influence to have an investment you can be proud of - rather than profiteering from environmental misery......I stopped eating kitkats a few months ago due to Nestlés (lack of) palm oil policy and now avoid anything Nestlé - which is a shame as Fruit Pastilles used to be amongst my very favourite things...let alone Aero and all Nestlé confectionary. I have a sweet tooth - but a sweeter conscience....

The only reason Nestle has done so well all these years is more than likely down to exploitation, and no one noticing and making the company pay for what they take, which is taken without regard to anything or anyone but themselves.
This multinational monster of a company is now actively stealing the natural resources of any area they can.

This despicable and disgusting behaviour must cease.

IMMEDIATLY.

Not only is nestle putting the forest in grave danger, not only is everything in those forests suffering for the greed and gluttony of nestle to be sustained, but the company is exerting all its pressure without abating on critically endangered orangutangs and thier critically endangered habitat.

The only sustainability that nestle is really after is the sustainability of their own profit margins, though the actuality of how they go about this, i.e. destroying so much of our precious planet and the natural immensity of these rainforests and jungles, these practises should be as abhorrent to their shareholders as it is to everyone who feels SO strongly that they have written their thoughts here.

The company and the ignorance of the shareholders should be abolished and punished.

Burn their houses and factories and turn those into palm oil plantations. Make nestle an endangered species and the planet and all of its inhabitants will be far better off all round.

I fully support Greenpeace about the disreputable suppliers they mention on the sourcing of their palm oil. If palm oil is to be used in any product which I believe is itself questionable to the environment it should not be coming from deforested land or from peatlands. These habitats are important for the planets system to continue working properly, they are beautiful and a great resource for humankind and wildlife to be looked after not to be exploited!

I will no longer purchase anything Nestle supplies/produces.
Even if you bow to public pressure, this only shows you are scared for your own profits. A selfish profit-focussed company who are more interested in selling chocolate bars than about securing a future for the vulnerable species of this planet... including both flora and fauna!!!
Nestles values stink, and I am ensuring everyone I know, knows this!

Dear Nestle Shareholders

Please urge Nestle to do even more to ensure that their use of palm oil no longer threatens the habitats of Orangutangs. They are curruently playing a major part in the destroying rainforests for palm oil. They will listen to you, they need your support and your money.

Thank you very much

Sandra King

Dear Nestle I hope you consider all these messages and realise what your company is doing is unforgivable.
Please be aware that none of my friedns or family are purchasing Nestle products while Nestle supports the destruction of Orangutan habitat to obtain Palm Oil.
You all have blood on your hands while you allow this to continue. Do you really want to be known as the company that helped wipe out a species? Wake up and smell the coffee.

I have been boycotting Nestle since the early 1970s, and I really wish I could stop. Shareholders of the company should behave like responsible human beings, taking care of the planet we all share, and forgetting their dividends for a moment. Surely it is more important to save what we have left than to continue to squander it. Dividends won't matter at all if there's not much of a world to enjoy. Think of future generations and what their lives might be like if we are not all very, very careful.

Jackum Brown

Dear Nestlé shareholder,

Wine on your table today, an impoverished world for your children’s tomorrows. Your short-term gain versus their long-term loss. In all conscience, it isn’t right, is it?

Please use your special influence to impress upon Nestlé how imperative it is they conduct their business affairs sensibly and ethically, not with brutish ignorance and myopic greed. Then, as well as the rich diversity of life dependent upon the Indonesian rainforest, your children, and all our children, will thank you for your action.

John Philip Hurst

Please, we ask you to stop killing our rainforests and orangutan and break all connections with Sinar Mas! With no rainforests, we have no planet. How would it feel to be the company that contributes a phenomally to the death of our planet?
Me and my family are never buying another Nestle product again. Hope that makes you happy.

I've been boycotting nestle for the past 4 months and urging others to as well, even including my addiction to coffee!! I am now just soooooo tempted to boycott anything and everything that has palm oil in.
I think the shareholders should take a nice scenic holiday to see the devastation they've helped create. Then, and only then perhaps, will they acknowledge what the company is doing and feel strongly enough to do something about it. Like we all have.

Dear shareholders,

I have recently learned of Nestlé's involvement in the destruction of the Indonesian rain forest for the extraction of palm oil.

Using the palm oil in Nestlé products shows firstly , that the company does not care about consumers' health as palm oil is a cheap and unhealthy ingredient. With growing health awareness of population, Nestlé should aim for higher standards, if it wants to be a globally respected company.

Secondly, the most immediate consequence of deforestation is the massacre of orang-utans who are loosing their habitats.

I, for one, have stopped consuming all Nestlé products and I am spreading the word. My family and friends have joined me in this boycott. I urge you to stop this criminal practice before your brand will be famous not for Kit-Kats but for changing Rainforest into orang-utans graveyard.

Please find below the link to the film ´Green´. I hope it will inspire in you feelings other than greed.
http://www.greenthefilm.com/?lang=fr

Your Faithfully

Iwona

Nestle (and its shareholders) should be ashamed of themselves in continuing to use palm oil produced by Sinar Mas - an organisation which obviously has ro regard for the environment and the future of this world.

Shareholders you must all have children or grandchildren or nephews or nieces. Do you not want them to be surrounded by the beautiful world you have grown up in! Its not about us its about them.

Please do the right thing, don't chose money over beauty.

Shame on Nestle and your shareholders. We all live in the same fragile world. The least you can do is stop using palm oil produced unsustainably

#nestle Good thing I never stopped boycotting!

Shame on you Nestle shareholders if you don't take this opportunity to clean up your act and stop using palm oil from destroyed rainforests. The right decision could prove a bonus both financially as well as ethically to you.

I support Greenpeace's position and would request that you seriously consider the adverse impact that Nestlé is having by continuing its action and how easy it would be for a company of its size and influence to show a better example to the world. Geoff Naylor 21 Birch Close, SO21 1XE United Kingdom

Please reconsider your investment with Nestlé until they stop trashing the planet for profit. Let's care for the planet together.

Dear Mr Chauvet, Thanks you for writing to me about this crucial issue. This will be a short reply as, bascically, I agree with your views. Liberal Democrat policy is not to renew 'Trident' for the sorts of reasons you give in your email. We will certainly argue strongy for a review of the nuclear weapons programme, and for any Trident replacement not to go ahead. Best wishes Eileen Baxendale Lib Dem PC Glasgow North East

Dear Nestlé shareholders - you have a chance to make a difference, so why don't you? Use your influence to have an investment you can be proud of - rather than profiteering from environmental misery......I stopped eating kitkats a few months ago due to Nestlés (lack of) palm oil policy and now avoid anything Nestlé - which is a shame as Fruit Pastilles used to be amongst my very favourite things...let alone Aero and all Nestlé confectionary. I have a sweet tooth - but a sweeter conscience....

The only reason Nestle has done so well all these years is more than likely down to exploitation, and no one noticing and making the company pay for what they take, which is taken without regard to anything or anyone but themselves. This multinational monster of a company is now actively stealing the natural resources of any area they can. This despicable and disgusting behaviour must cease. IMMEDIATLY. Not only is nestle putting the forest in grave danger, not only is everything in those forests suffering for the greed and gluttony of nestle to be sustained, but the company is exerting all its pressure without abating on critically endangered orangutangs and thier critically endangered habitat. The only sustainability that nestle is really after is the sustainability of their own profit margins, though the actuality of how they go about this, i.e. destroying so much of our precious planet and the natural immensity of these rainforests and jungles, these practises should be as abhorrent to their shareholders as it is to everyone who feels SO strongly that they have written their thoughts here. The company and the ignorance of the shareholders should be abolished and punished. Burn their houses and factories and turn those into palm oil plantations. Make nestle an endangered species and the planet and all of its inhabitants will be far better off all round.

I fully support Greenpeace about the disreputable suppliers they mention on the sourcing of their palm oil. If palm oil is to be used in any product which I believe is itself questionable to the environment it should not be coming from deforested land or from peatlands. These habitats are important for the planets system to continue working properly, they are beautiful and a great resource for humankind and wildlife to be looked after not to be exploited!

I will no longer purchase anything Nestle supplies/produces. Even if you bow to public pressure, this only shows you are scared for your own profits. A selfish profit-focussed company who are more interested in selling chocolate bars than about securing a future for the vulnerable species of this planet... including both flora and fauna!!! Nestles values stink, and I am ensuring everyone I know, knows this!

Dear Nestle Shareholders Please urge Nestle to do even more to ensure that their use of palm oil no longer threatens the habitats of Orangutangs. They are curruently playing a major part in the destroying rainforests for palm oil. They will listen to you, they need your support and your money. Thank you very much Sandra King

Dear Nestle I hope you consider all these messages and realise what your company is doing is unforgivable. Please be aware that none of my friedns or family are purchasing Nestle products while Nestle supports the destruction of Orangutan habitat to obtain Palm Oil. You all have blood on your hands while you allow this to continue. Do you really want to be known as the company that helped wipe out a species? Wake up and smell the coffee.

I have been boycotting Nestle since the early 1970s, and I really wish I could stop. Shareholders of the company should behave like responsible human beings, taking care of the planet we all share, and forgetting their dividends for a moment. Surely it is more important to save what we have left than to continue to squander it. Dividends won't matter at all if there's not much of a world to enjoy. Think of future generations and what their lives might be like if we are not all very, very careful. Jackum Brown

Dear Nestlé shareholder, Wine on your table today, an impoverished world for your children’s tomorrows. Your short-term gain versus their long-term loss. In all conscience, it isn’t right, is it? Please use your special influence to impress upon Nestlé how imperative it is they conduct their business affairs sensibly and ethically, not with brutish ignorance and myopic greed. Then, as well as the rich diversity of life dependent upon the Indonesian rainforest, your children, and all our children, will thank you for your action. John Philip Hurst

Please, we ask you to stop killing our rainforests and orangutan and break all connections with Sinar Mas! With no rainforests, we have no planet. How would it feel to be the company that contributes a phenomally to the death of our planet? Me and my family are never buying another Nestle product again. Hope that makes you happy.

I've been boycotting nestle for the past 4 months and urging others to as well, even including my addiction to coffee!! I am now just soooooo tempted to boycott anything and everything that has palm oil in. I think the shareholders should take a nice scenic holiday to see the devastation they've helped create. Then, and only then perhaps, will they acknowledge what the company is doing and feel strongly enough to do something about it. Like we all have.

Dear shareholders, I have recently learned of Nestlé's involvement in the destruction of the Indonesian rain forest for the extraction of palm oil. Using the palm oil in Nestlé products shows firstly , that the company does not care about consumers' health as palm oil is a cheap and unhealthy ingredient. With growing health awareness of population, Nestlé should aim for higher standards, if it wants to be a globally respected company. Secondly, the most immediate consequence of deforestation is the massacre of orang-utans who are loosing their habitats. I, for one, have stopped consuming all Nestlé products and I am spreading the word. My family and friends have joined me in this boycott. I urge you to stop this criminal practice before your brand will be famous not for Kit-Kats but for changing Rainforest into orang-utans graveyard. Please find below the link to the film ´Green´. I hope it will inspire in you feelings other than greed. http://www.greenthefilm.com/?lang=fr Your Faithfully Iwona

Nestle (and its shareholders) should be ashamed of themselves in continuing to use palm oil produced by Sinar Mas - an organisation which obviously has ro regard for the environment and the future of this world.

Shareholders you must all have children or grandchildren or nephews or nieces. Do you not want them to be surrounded by the beautiful world you have grown up in! Its not about us its about them. Please do the right thing, don't chose money over beauty.

Shame on Nestle and your shareholders. We all live in the same fragile world. The least you can do is stop using palm oil produced unsustainably

#nestle Good thing I never stopped boycotting!

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