To Ken Murphy, Tesco CEO

“Stop buying from companies owned by forest destroyers and replace half the meat you sell with plant-based food by 2025”

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Dear

Ken

Murphy

Tesco CEO

Dear Mr Murphy,

I’m emailing today to ask you, in your new job as the CEO of the UK’s biggest supermarket, to take urgent action to stop fuelling the destruction of forests like the Amazon. Deforestation threatens the homes of people and wildlife, makes climate change worse and even increases the threat of future pandemics.

Scientists are warning us that we are now living in an ‘era of pandemics’, in which the risk of more devastating global viruses affecting the world is increasing rapidly. [1] Unless we tackle the root causes - including protecting forests and reducing meat production, which is one of the main drivers of deforestation - we could be facing many more tragedies.

Right now, Tesco is driving us further into this crisis by selling hundreds of thousands of tonnes of industrial meat, and by buying much of this meat from companies owned by rainforest-destroying companies like JBS. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

As the new chief executive of Tesco, you have an incredible opportunity and a crucial responsibility to make Tesco a true leader and a part of the solution. But in order to do this, you need to stop propping up the industrial meat system that is driving climate change, devastating the natural world and human lives, and exposing us to the risk of more deadly diseases.

Tesco can’t sell industrial meat at the current scale without being involved in deforestation. You need to replace half the meat you sell with plant-based food by 2025 and stop buying from companies owned by JBS.

I hope you will do the right thing and end Tesco's role in the climate, nature and health emergencies that we are all facing.

Kind regards,

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[1] Protecting nature is vital to escape 'era of pandemics’ – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/29/protecting-nature-vital-pandemics-report-outbreaks-wild

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Tell Tesco’s new CEO: “Stop destroying forests”

Tesco are still fuelling the destruction of forests like the Amazon.

But now we have a really important opportunity to get them to do better. Tesco has a new CEO, and with someone else in charge, they have a chance to make a fresh start. Together we can show them why forests are so important to us and our planet.

Precious forests are being cleared to make way for cattle farms and to grow animal feed for UK chickens and pigs. An area the size of the UK has already been burnt down in Brazil this year. Tesco is fully aware of the situation, yet they continue to sell unsustainable amounts of industrial meat.

Business as usual can’t continue. As CEO of the biggest supermarket in the UK, Ken Murphy has a once in a lifetime chance to put things right and help create real change, not just for forests, but also for nature and the health of our planet.

To Ken Murphy, Tesco CEO

“Stop buying from companies owned by forest destroyers and replace half the meat you sell with plant-based food by 2025”​

Tell Tesco’s new CEO: “Stop destroying forests”

“Stop buying from companies owned by forest destroyers and replace half the meat you sell with plant-based food by 2025”