*[Enwl-eng] KFC

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                        In just 3 weeks we could finally stop KFC and Pizza 
Hut from using rainforest-wrecking palm oil.

                        We can't miss this chance to protect our precious 
forests from fast-food greed -- can you add your name now?

                         Sign the petition


            They tried to silence us.

            Yum! Brands, owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, unleashed its legal 
power to try to prevent us from using our power as shareholders. But we 
stood strong and we won’t back down until rainforests are safe from the 
fast-food giant’s greed.

            Multi-billion dollar fast-food conglomerate Yum! Brands has one 
of the industry's weakest anti-deforestation policies. Its reckless sourcing 
of palm oil and other ingredients have horrific consequences for wildlife 
and the climate -- and could even spur the next global pandemic.

            Now, after all the excuses, smokescreens, and greenwashing 
attempts, Yum! will finally have to listen to us. In just three weeks, we 
have an opportunity to hold the corporation to account over its destructive 
ways -- and we urgently need your help to make sure it doesn't go to waste!

            We're crashing Yum!'s AGM to present your signatures along a 
hard hitting no-deforestation shareholder proposal. Your pressure will 
convince shareholders that deforestation is bad for business -- and force 
Yum! into long-overdue rainforest-saving action.

            Demand KFC and Pizza Hut take deforestation off their menu!

            Vladimir, deforestation for cheap fast-food ingredients has 
driven endangered animals like orangutans, pygmy elephants and Sumatran 
rhinos to the brink of extinction. It's caused devastating wildfires in the 
Amazon and Indonesia and released tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. And 
now experts are saying it might make pandemics like COVID-19 more likely to 
happen.

            And still, knowing all this, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell 
can't -- or won't -- prove their palm oil, beef, soy, and paper packaging 
are sustainably sourced. CEOs talk a green game, but who knows how many 
millions of trees are being slashed and burned behind the scenes?

            Last year, we traveled to Yum!'s Kentucky HQ to present our 
proposal for much-needed transparency on forests. When it got one in every 
three votes, Yum! responded -- by trying to ban us from doing the same thing 
this year. But our people power beat all their legal brass. Now we've got 
one more chance -- and we have to make it count.

            There's a big difference this year: the pandemic means we can't 
confront Yum!'s bosses in person. So it's extra important to have your 
signatures on our side to make the biggest impression on both shareholders 
and the board.

            Please, will you add your name to save our forests, the last 
orangutans and prevent the next pandemic?

            With nobody to hold them accountable, corporations like Yum! 
will keep exploiting our natural world to the point of collapse. It's up to 
us to show them that when rainforests burn, we all lose.

            And you've already shown you're up to the task. Pressure from 
SumOfUs members like you has gotten some of the world's most powerful 
corporations to take deforestation seriously -- like Pepsi, which radically 
overhauled its palm oil sourcing policy this year after over one million of 
you called it out. Or Lindt, which committed to an ambitious 
zero-deforestation policy for its cocoa after you and I exposed the 
rainforest destruction behind its fancy wrapping.

            With your help, KFC and Pizza Hut will finally take 
deforestation off the menu. But there isn't much time left to act. On behalf 
of rainforests everywhere, can you join us?


             Sign the petition
            Thanks for all that you do,
            Fatah and the team at SumOfUs



            More information:

            Our shareholder proposal, SEC, April 2020
            What's driving deforestation?, Union of Concerned Scientists
            How does fast food impact the environment?, Environmental 
Technology, 7 February 2019
            How the world got hooked on palm oil, The Guardian, 19 February 
2019









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From: Fatah Sadaoui, SumOfUs
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 9:34 PM
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