{"id":37043,"date":"2021-05-20T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T10:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=37043"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T10:36:04","slug":"sheffield-greenpeace-have-taken-action-against-tescos-involvement-in-deforestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/sheffield-greenpeace-have-taken-action-against-tescos-involvement-in-deforestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Greenpeace have taken action against Tesco&#8217;s involvement in deforestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Greenpeace volunteers have been taking action to urge Tesco to stop fuelling the destruction of forests in the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace have found that Tesco is the largest offender and seller of meat in the UK compared to other supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>The group have been targeting several Tesco stores in Sheffield and across the UK in the hopes of sending a message to the supermarket\u2019s CEO Ken Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers have highlighted Tesco\u2019s links to deforestation by using a stencil reading \u2018Tesco meat= deforestation\u2019 in front of stores and spraying it with eco-friendly wash away paint.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Greenpeace volunteers in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sheffield?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sheffield<\/a> and across the UK are taking action to urge <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tesco?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tesco<\/a>\u2019s CEO Ken Murphy to stop fuelling the destruction of forests in the Amazon and other regions of Brazil. Take action here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NlPwNSFBmm\">https:\/\/t.co\/NlPwNSFBmm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tescofood?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tescofood<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/deforestation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#deforestation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/industrialmeat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#industrialmeat<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i0crwTgnIn\">pic.twitter.com\/i0crwTgnIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sheffield Greenpeace (@shefgreenpeace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shefgreenpeace\/status\/1394203294646554630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Richard Teasdale, 52, is the group coordinator of Sheffield Greenpeace.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe want Tesco to reduce the amount of meat they sell as the amount we are eating worldwide isn\u2019t sustainable due to links to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTesco needs to sever their links to JBS, the largest industrial meat company in the world who are involved in the deforestation of the Amazon to graze cattle and to grow soya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Amazon is vitally important, not just for its indigenous people, not just for the wildlife but also for carbon capture because a huge forest like the Amazon absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide to keep climate change at bay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace have also previously targeted Sainsbury&#8217;s in connection with plastics as they were found as the largest offender of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Teasdale added: \u201cWhat we hope to achieve is two-fold. We aim to raise public awareness of the issue as a lot of people don\u2019t know exactly what is happening with deforestation. We also want Tesco to reduce the amount of meat that they sell over the coming years and persuade them to cut ties with JBS and its subsidiaries.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 600px;\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/6191157\/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%!; margin-top: 4px!important; text-align: right!important;\"><a class=\"flourish-credit\" style=\"text-decoration: none!important;\" href=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/6191157\/?utm_source=embed&amp;utm_campaign=visualisation\/6191157\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 105px!important; height: 16px!important; border: none!important; margin: 0!important;\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/made_with_flourish.svg\" alt=\"Made with Flourish\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 4px !important; text-align: left;\">Dawn Spier, a Greenpeace volunteer said: \u201cIt\u2019s important because there\u2019s only so much you can do yourself and eventually what you have to do is reach outside your circle and influence other people. This is about raising awareness and educating people to connect the dots as to what\u2019s happening.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t look at the picture behind supermarkets and the devastation that\u2019s caused with going to them and buying their meat products. This has a far-reaching effect in the supply chain and a lot of people don\u2019t make the connections with what\u2019s happening in the Amazon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Find the petition <a href=\"https:\/\/action.greenpeace.org.uk\/l\/854853\/2021-04-29\/r6gxb?source=UN&amp;subsource=FOAMREPEUN02PU\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Greenpeace volunteers have been taking action to urge Tesco to stop fuelling the destruction of forests in the Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,41,21],"tags":[683,15,38,131],"class_list":["post-37043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-environment","category-news","tag-environment-greenpeace-tesco","tag-news","tag-sheffield","tag-south-yorkshire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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