Where does the story take place in, btw? I definitely forgot. 💀
Bahahaha I don't blame you.
Cargill is a fictional University set in Kingston, in new york state (about 3hrs++ drive from NYC).
I actually had plans for some cute upstate NY fall activities (think apple picking, hiking, apple cider etc.) and a visit to NYC planned but its been taking me a while to get there. Definitely in the works though, so stay tuned!
As for MC's hometown, I'm leaning towards leaving that up to readers somewhat, though the canon details are that it's a small town about a 7 or so hour drive from Kingston/Cargill.
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American Lady Corset models for 1910 / American Lady Corset Co. ; [printed by] Cargill. Description and price list for corsets made by the American Lady Corset Co. Includes illustrations.
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
Around a handful of families have controlled the world’s resources for 200+ years. They’re incredibly rich, incredibly stupid, humongous cowards, and most of them are inbred, which is why they’ve had to resort to brainwashing you. Rothschild, Rockefeller, DuPont, Koch, Cargill, Sackler, Walton, Johnson, Mellon. What’re you gonna do about it?
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"We knew that the company didn't care, but we expected more from the family," one campaigner said.
The Cargill-MacMillan family refused to meet with a young Indigenous advocate who had traveled 4,000 miles to hand-deliver a letter calling on them to stop deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado grassland.
Security guards denied entry to 21-year-old Beka Saw Munduruku when she arrived at the driveway of the family's offices in Wayzata, Minnesota, on Thursday. The family had not responded to requests to arrange a meeting ahead of time.
"It is appalling that an emissary who traveled 4,000 miles to deliver an urgent message from her people would be treated with such dismissal and disrespect," Amazon Watch program director Christian Poirier said in a statement.
"The Cargill-MacMillan family has demonstrated that they are unconcerned with the impacts of the company's actions on those victimized by them."
Cargill is the world's largest agribusiness company, according to advocacy group Stand.earth. It is also family-owned, with around 88% of it controlled by approximately 20 people. The Cargill-MacMillans have the highest concentration of billionaires of any family worldwide and are the fourth-richest family in the U.S. While the company has made commitments to end deforestation and human rights abuses in its supply chain, Munduruku said that this hasn't been the experience of her community in the state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon.
"In every region where Cargill operates, you are destroying the environment and driving out or threatening the communities who live there," Munduruku wrote in the letter she attempted to deliver Thursday.
In her letter, Munduruku called out a specific project of Cargill's: the 1,000-kilometer Ferrogrão railway that would cut a swath through the Amazon to transport soy grown in the Cerrado.
"Last year the forests and savannas of the Cerrado were destroyed at a rate of 8,000 acres a day," Munduruku wrote in her letter. "This is an area of destruction the size of your hometown of Minneapolis every five days."
Munduruku, who is a member of the Munduruku community and lives on Sawré Muybu Indigenous territory, is the first Indigenous Brazilian leader to visit Cargill on its home turf to protest its activities.
By refusing to see her, Stand.earth campaign director Mathew Jacobson said, "the Cargill-MacMillan family has demonstrated that they are unconcerned with the impacts of the company's actions on those victimized by them. And they are dismissive of all attempts to bring it to their attention."
"We knew that the company didn't care, but we expected more from the family," Jacobson continued. "It's high time the family intervenes. We hope that the family will choose to be remembered as one that made the world a better place, not a worse one."
June 28 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by eight citizens of Mali who sought to hold Hershey Co (HSY.N), Nestle SA (NESN.S), Cargill Inc and others liable for child slavery on Ivory Coast cocoa farms.
The other defendants included privately-held Mars Inc, Mondelez International Inc (MDLZ.O), Barry Callebaut AG (BARN.S) and Olam International Ltd .
The plaintiffs said they were trafficked as children after being approached by unfamiliar men who promised paying jobs, but were ultimately not paid for their labor, threatened with starvation if they did not work, and required to live in squalor.
But they said the plaintiffs' overbroad legal theory could leave too many people liable for forced child labor, including consumers and retailers who might benefit from lower prices.
The plaintiffs accused the companies of aiding and abetting human rights violations through their active involvement in purchasing Ivory Coast cocoa and turning a blind eye to the use of slave labor on the farms despite being aware of the practice in order to keep cocoa prices low.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2018 revived the claims, citing the allegations that the companies provided "personal spending money" to local farmers to guarantee the cheapest source of cocoa. The 9th Circuit found that the payments were akin to kickbacks and that the low price of cocoa was dependent upon the child slave labor.
US judge Dabney Frederick ruled that these corporations do not have any liability to the 8 plaintiffs who were trafficked from Mali to the Ivory coast as children to work for free on cocoa plantations. as children they are paid in meager food rations, and are threatened with violence if they try to escape. Even though the US corporations admit that they knowingly use child labor and even pay farmers extra for "good" worker discipline and even at times give them training on how to best exploit their child slaves. (Emphasis by me)
FRENZY (JOANNA CARGILL) has been added to the MCOC Wishlist
Literarily a long-strong mutant who was a villain with the Acolytes and Marauders and is now in the #XMenVote, Frenzy is overdue for upvotes from @MarvelChampions Summoners. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #MCOC
American Lady Corset models : supplement 1913-1914 / American Lady Corset Company ; designed, engraved and printed by the Cargill Company. Description and price list for corsets made by the American Lady Corset Co. Includes illustrations.
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
X-Men vol 2 43 (1995) . Falling From Grace . Written by Fabian Nicieza Penciled by Paul Smith Inked by Cam Smith and Matt Ryan Colors by Kevin Somers and Digital Chameleon Lettered by Richard Starkings and Comicraft Cover by Andy Kubert, Matt Ryan and Kevin Somers . Avalon was breaking apart from the intense fight between Holocaust and Exodus. Colossus managed to save the comatose Magneto, while Cyclops and Jean Grey tried their best to save the remaining Acolytes... . #xmen #colossus #90s #cyclops #ageofapocalypse #acolytes #professorx #jeangrey #phoenix #skids #exodus #paulsmith #magneto #cargill #frenzy #unuscione https://www.instagram.com/p/CjDegScMIi_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=