From ‘War On Want’…...From ‘Wild Justice’…... BBC Pics of Scotland….
by Bernie Bell - 09:27 on 28 September 2024
From ‘War On Want’….
“UK banking giant Barclays has ramped up its bankrolling of companies selling arms to Israel’s occupation and apartheid regime by 55% since 2021.
Our new report, 'Barclays: Arming Israel’s Apartheid and Genocide' exposes Barclays' £2 billion investment – along with £6.1 billion in loans and underwriting – in nine arms companies supplying weapons, components and military technology to Israel’s apartheid regime.
Bernie, will you demand that Barclays stops bankrolling companies selling arms to Israel’s apartheid regime, used to kill Palestinians across the Gaza Strip?
Israels apartheid regime, equipped with weaponry bankrolled by Barclays, has bombed civilians and civilian targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including hospitals, bakeries, water pipelines and other life-sustaining infrastructure.
This is plausible genocide, as stated by the International Court of Justice – with Israel killing over 34,000 Palestinians, including 14,000 children, and injuring over 80,000.
Banks and other financial institutions have a responsibility to avoid violating human rights.
While public pressure has encouraged other financial institutions to end their complicity in Israel’s human rights abuses, Barclays has stayed silent and continues to profit off Israel's apartheid and plausible genocide of the Palestinian people.
Bernie, will you call on Barclays to stop bankrolling Israel's apartheid and genocide regime?
In solidarity,
Neil Sammonds
Senior Campaigner (Palestine)
War on Want
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From ‘Wild Justice’….
“Today we bring you some more news about lead contamination of game meat, and a complaint that Wild Justice has lodged about the sale of that game meat by certain supermarkets.
Yesterday we submitted a complaint to the Competition and Marketing Authority (CMA) about false claims made by Waitrose and Marks & Spencer. The complaint brought the CMA's attention to the fact that both of these supermarkets have been selling game meat contaminated with toxic lead shot whilst simultaneously claiming not to stock it anymore.
Both Waitrose and Marks and Spencer have made bold public claims about the game meat they sell in recent years. Following some of our previous lab tests that revealed high levels of toxic lead in their game meat, Waitrose's most recent public commitment stated it had 'eliminated lead shot from our supply chain'. But our most recent testing shows that this isn't the case at all, with some Waitrose gamebirds from the 2023/24 shooting season still containing high levels of lead.
Similarly, Marks and Spencer has claimed to have gone lead-free when it comes to the game meat it sells - but our testing also shows that game meat being sold by M&S earlier this year was contaminated with lead.
The CMA has a ‘green claims code’ that provides guidance for businesses when making environmental claims about their goods and services. This guidance requires marketing claims made by companies to be ‘truthful and accurate’ and ‘substantiated’.
It seems to us that both Waitrose's and Marks and Spencer's claims of only selling lead-free game meat is untruthful, inaccurate and unsubstantiated. So, we've provided evidence to the CMA that in our view, the false claims being made by these supermarkets are breaches of the CMA guidance.
You can read our press release about our complaint to the CMA here.
This year's Red-legged Partridge shooting season is already in full swing (it began on 1st Sept) and the Pheasant shooting season opens on Monday (1st October). Once again we'll be testing game bird meat being sold by various supermarkets and other outlets, especially those claiming to stock only 'lead-free' birds, to see whether the gamebird shooting industry that supplies these products has managed to clean up its act and whether the supermarkets and other stockists are deceiving their customers with false claims about the products they're selling.
We'll update you when we hear back from the CMA.
That's it for now.
Thank you,”
Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).
BBC Pics of Scotland…
20th- 27th September 2024…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70zqj10kero
Marietta MacSween’s domestic pic from Scalpay brought back our memories of the wilder side of the island…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/06/01/the-western-isles-or-there-and-back-again-vi/
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