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Environmental activism in Latin America

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South America is home to the largest biodiverse rainforests on Earth. As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. This is equivalent to a rainforest the size of the United Kingdom [3].

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Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

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Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. Nestle Pakistan caught evading government taxes of Rs38.86

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Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report

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Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. Nestle Pakistan caught evading government taxes of Rs38.86

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Turkish parliament dumps Coke, Nestle from menus over alleged Israel support

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Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. Nestle Pakistan caught evading government taxes of Rs38.86

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

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Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke (2002) For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It by Mark Pendergrast (1993). The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004).

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

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Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke (2002) For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It by Mark Pendergrast (1993). The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004).

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UK: Coca-Cola Enterprises boss admits taking £1.5m in bribes

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Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke (2002) For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It by Mark Pendergrast (1993). The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004).

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