KFC Using Rain-Forest Wood in Boxes, Greenpeace Says
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Yum! Brands Inc. is making its trademark KFC chicken buckets using wood harvested from Indonesia’s rain forest, destroying the habitat of the endangered Sumatran tiger, Greenpeace International said.
Independent tests on food boxes purchased at stores in Indonesia, the U.K. and China in the past two years found fibers from tropical hardwood trees, according to a Greenpeace report released today. More than half the material in some KFC chicken buckets in China came from such wood, said Rolf Skar, forest campaign director for Greenpeace.