{"id":7102,"date":"2015-04-07T15:08:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=7102"},"modified":"2015-04-07T15:08:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T19:08:34","slug":"kfc-taco-bell-pizza-hut-launch-new-palm-oil-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/07\/kfc-taco-bell-pizza-hut-launch-new-palm-oil-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"KFC, Taco Bell &#038; Pizza Hut launch New Palm Oil Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Yum! Brands\u2019 New Palm Oil Policy<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace welcomes Yum! Brands new palm oil procurement policy. Yum! Brands includes KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut under their umbrella. Rolf Skar, Forest Campaign Director for Greenpeace USA responded with the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYum! Brands\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yumcsr.com\/environment\/environment-policies.asp\">new palm oil policy<\/a> is a good sign it\u2019s listening to customers around the world who want rainforest destruction taken off the menu.\u201d said Rolf Skar, Forest Campaign Director at Greenpeace USA. \u201cYum!\u2019s announcement moves the company closer to being deforestation-free, but there\u2019s still room for improvement. Yum! needs to more clearly define terms like \u2018high carbon stock forest\u2019 and \u2018best management practices\u2019 for peatlands in order to make sure change really happens on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFast food companies have multiple high-risk commodities like soy, beef and paper in their supply chains. When it comes to social conflict and deforestation, Greenpeace wants to see Yum! Brands and the whole fast food industry address these issues in a comprehensive way&#8211;or risk their brands, reputations and bottom lines. In the absence of clear commitments to prevent forest destruction, companies like Burger King and Subway are falling further behind and should work quickly to develop standards for the global commodities they buy.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yum! Brands palm oil sourcing policy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yumcsr.com\/environment\/environment-policies.asp\">http:\/\/www.yumcsr.com\/environment\/environment-policies.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yum! Brands\u2019 New Palm Oil Policy Greenpeace welcomes Yum! Brands new palm oil procurement policy. Yum! Brands includes KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut under their umbrella. Rolf Skar, Forest Campaign Director for Greenpeace USA responded with the following statement: \u201cYum! Brands\u2019 new palm oil policy is a good sign it\u2019s listening to customers around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7105,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions\/7105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}