MCDONALD’S UNLIKELY ALLY FOR RESPONSIBLE SOY PRODUCTION
May 26th, 2015
Vegetable oil companies are rightfully concerned about the reputation of key feedstocks such as soy for good environmental and social sustainability. Bad news stories about poor pay, pollution and virgin land clearances can knock consumer demand for products and that is bad for business.But the 10th annual Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) conference, ‘Responsible Soy – The Road to Ten Million’, staged on May 19 and 20 in Brussels, heard that help making the sector more sustainable has come from a perhaps unlikely source – McDonald’s.The American ...
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