Unilever’s jams, ketchups and other food items containing sugar are tainted with the taste of cruelty. In India, the company sources sugar from regions where bulls are forced to haul overloaded carts of sugarcane. This can lead to painful conditions and severe injuries.
Bulls are social, intelligent animals, but in the sugar industry, these gentle animals are treated like machines—made to work from dawn to night, often beyond legal limits. They’re beaten, with sticks, jabbed with barbed spikes, and tied with nose ropes that can cause painful infections. Many die from exhaustion and abuse.
Animals are not the only ones to suffer in this industry. Forced hysterectomies and other horrors—reported by the New York Times—are just the tip of the iceberg for the workers who are forced to rely on outdated bullock carts.
Eco-tractors are an ethical and efficient solution that improves bull and human lives. Unlike slow bullock carts, a tractor can efficiently transport up to six times the amount in a single load, frees bulls from a lifetime of misery, and improves earning opportunities for workers.
Please use the form below to demand that Unilever go bull-free.