LabourStart headline - Source: IUF

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We are a company that respects the environment and developed excellent agriculture practice.
The company has quality certifications, as GLOBAL GAP CERTIFICATIONS, the sealed of RAINFOREST ALLIANCE with the standards of sustainable agriculture, S.A 8000 and the RSE process.

What is Global Gap?

GLOBAL GAP is a set of international certifications of renamed standards, about the Good Agriculture Process including aquaculture products.
The GLOBALGAP standards is primarily designed to reassure consumers about how the food is produced on the farm by minimizing detrimental environmental impacts of farming operations, reducing the use of chemical imputs and ensuring a responsible approach to worker health and safety as well animal welfare. Without these certification the agriculture products may face some obstacle access to the international market requirements

What is Rainforest Alliance?

Rainforest Alliance uses the power of international markets to stop the primary deforestation drivers, and the environment destruction, the lumber extraction, the agriculture expansion, the cattle raising and tourism. Rainforest Alliance works to reassure that million land space to produce forest, farms, cattle land , and hotel properties must be handled with strict sustainable standards. Binding these two companies with responsible costumers which they can identify their products and services using the Sealed of the Certification of Rainforest Alliance and the Brand of Rainforest Alliance Verified, we demonstrate that the sustainable practices could help the companies to prosper in the modern economy.

http://www.lastreshermanashn.com/certification.html

Notice that contrary to RA statement there is no mention of workers rights at the company site. Guess that's ok with RA, the workers ain't trees or animals. Wonder how that works out in the long run...the stupid fucks.

Whose side are they on, oh wait.....


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