Unilever will today become the first of a series of food company giants to be questioned over a shock new whistleblower memo accusing the industry of “sleepwalking” into a climate disaster.
Campaign group ShareAction will question the fmcg titan over its resilience planning and food supply chain management, on the back of the memo from a group of food industry executives which claimed the food sector was facing a disaster “like no other”.
The memo last month warned the food industry was “woefully underprepared” for eco threats, with resilience based on “wishful thinking” and “false reassurances” to investors, and companies more concerned with short-term economic issues and regulation than long-term threats such as extreme weather, global heating and water scarcity.
ShareAction told The Grocer today’s grilling of Unilever, at Westminster’s Queen Elizabeth II Centre, was just the beginning of a concerted campaign calling for the memo to be a “wake-up call”. It will also target the forthcoming AGMs for companies including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Hilton Food Group and Associated British Foods (ABF).
The group, which has received backing previously from the likes of The Health Foundation, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation and Nesta, has become a major thorn in the side of food companies, previously hounding the likes of Unilever, Nestlé and Tesco on the obesity agenda amid calls for companies to do more to improve the health of their products.
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