{"id":7029681,"date":"2026-08-06T05:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/we-had-a-day-of-action-against-oreo-the-understory\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:50:26","slug":"we-had-a-day-of-action-against-oreo-the-understory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7029681","title":{"rendered":"We had a day of action against Oreo – The Understory"},"content":{"rendered":"


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On National Oreo Day \u2014 March 6 \u2014 activists in more than a dozen cities gathered outside offices and facilities belonging to Mondel\u0113z International, the $40 billion company behind Oreo, Ritz, and Chips Ahoy!, to protest the company\u2019s palm oil supply chains.<\/p>\n

The demonstrations stretched from New Jersey to California, drawing attention to the company\u2019s links to ongoing deforestation in Indonesia\u2019s Leuser Ecosystem \u2014 the last place on Earth where orangutans, elephants, tigers, and rhinos still coexist in the wild.<\/p>\n

At the same time, thousands of people contacted Mondel\u0113z directly online \u2014 sending messages to the company\u2019s social media accounts and posting public feedback on its platforms \u2014 urging the company to address deforestation and human rights violations in its supply chains.<\/p>\n

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RAN organizer, Sarmishta Govindan, speaking through a bullhorn outside of Mondel\u0113z\u2019 headquarters in Chicago on Oreo Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oreo Day followed another<\/a> recent flashpoint at a major investor event in Florida, where RAN activists interrupted CEO Dirk van de Put\u2019s speech and demanded to know why the company continues to lag behind its competitors on deforestation and human rights. The CEO had no answer.<\/p>\n

Mondel\u0113z earned an F grade on RAN\u2019s 2025 Brand Scorecard, ranking dead last in a cohort that includes ten major brands, including PepsiCo and Unilever.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Mondel\u0113z has doubled down on the status quo, and even had a hand in delaying the landmark European Union deforestation law, or EUDR, under the pretext that it would increase cocoa prices.<\/p>\n

Besides its track record on deforestation, Mondel\u0113z has also refused to adopt a policy to protect environmental defenders. In 2024, 146 environmental defenders were killed or disappeared worldwide \u2014 many in land conflicts tied to industries that feed commodity supply chains like those belonging to Mondel\u0113z.<\/p>\n

Mondel\u0113z\u2019 PR team calls their overarching corporate mission \u201cSnacking Made Right.\u201d On March 6, activists across the country called it all wrong.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n