The international Sustainable Supply Chain Coalition, comprised of environmental groups, food activist organizations and labor unions, including the OCA, Sierra Club of Canada, and the Teamsters Union, protested inside and outside the Whole Foods Market shareholder meeting in Vancouver, BC on Monday March 8, 2010 to support four shareholder resolutions and call for a change in Whole Foods Market's unsustainable practices.
The international coalition is calling on Whole Foods Market and its major supplier United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) to sign the Sustainable Food Pledge and stop marketing conventional chemical, GMO, and energy-intensive foods and products as "natural" or "almost organic;" increase sales of certified organic products from 1/3 of current sales to 2/3 of sales within three years; and to pressure all of their so-called "natural" suppliers to sign a contract with an accredited organic certifier to begin to make the transition to organic.
The pledge also calls on WFM and UNFI to practice what they preach in terms of domestic Fair Trade, to recognize the rights of workers – from farm workers in the fields, to food processing workers, truck drivers, warehouse workers, and retail clerks – to organize themselves into unions if they so choose. The Pledge also calls on WFM and UNFI to recognize the rights of all citizens to universal health care and to acknowledge the fact that only a massive transition to organic food and farming can sequester sufficient greenhouse gases to prevent climate catastrophe.
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