A sign-on letter from national and regional environmental organizations including Dogwood Alliance, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, NRDC and RAN that calls on KFC to drop the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.  The groups present the case because the SFI allows for logging of endangered forests, large-scale clearcutting, conversion of natural forests to plantations and the worst of the worst practices in the woods.  KFC is asked to stop greenwashing its packaging and instead use less paper, use more recycled fiber, and switch the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification scheme whi

Press release for national day of action on the KFC campaign:

Asheville, NC – Today, KFC customers and concerned citizens from around the South and across the United States, delivered letters to over 200 KFC store managers asking them to push their parent company, YUM! Brands, to green its paper packaging.  The iconic KFC bucket, and other paper packaging  used at KFC restaurants across the country comes from critical wetland forests and some of the last remaining special places on the southeastern coast.

The original letter, Dogwood Alliance staff sent to executives at KFC asking them to green their paper packaging and open a dialogue with our organization.  This letter was also delivered to store managers across the South and around the nation on April 27, 2011.

The letter delivered to KFC store managers across the South and around the nation on April 27, 2011 asking the company to green its packaging.

A pdf of the letter delivered by hundreds of activists on April 27, 2011 to KFC store managers around the South and across the US.

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