Another reason to boycott McDonald’s:
They get their Minnesota locations potatoes from a company called RD Offutt Farms which claims on their website that it’s sustainable, good for the environment and the community, and does a lot of philanthropy and tree planting.
Well, wouldn’t you know it, but they left out the part where they’re suing the Pine Point residents, aka the Anishinaabe tribe of the White Earth Reservation, who keep losing more and more of their land by broken treaties (owning less than 10% of the reservations they were forced onto in the first place!) for what you might ask?
Protecting the water that they drink from the chemicals that have been causing cancers and a higher death toll among the tribe.
RD Offutt has been discovered to be “asking a federal judge to rule that the White Earth Nation has no authority to require farmers to get tribal water permits” and due to the poverty and opioid crisis pushed onto them by logging companies as far back as 1889, there’s no other place for them to go!
Their water is contaminated by the chemicals used by RD Offutt and once again, no one seems concerned.
No nasty ass, over-salted fries are worth letting an entire tribe of people die out because they didn’t have access to clean water.
I can no longer pick sage in the prairie for ceremonial purposes. Instead, I have to go deep into the last remaining wild places where R.D. Offutt doesn’t spray. I can hear them spraying from helicopters as early as 6:30 a.m.“
—Evelyn Bellanger, Anishinaabe, Pine Point village