Impossible Foods
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Impossible Foods scored a 100 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, Impossible Foods increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Impossible Foods forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. Impossible Foods does not provide protections against viewpoint discrimination. The company provides a benefits package for employees which covers travel/lodging costs for an abortion and transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. The company provides unconscious bias education for its employees. Impossible supports the Equality Act and has endorsed the Black Lives Matter organization. The company’s CEO Patrick O. Brown is a signatory of CEOs For Gun Safety. Impossible’s CEO, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. The company maintains "partnerships" (i.e., direct grant-making of food products) with Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp and Black Lives Matter. For these reasons, Impossible Foods receives a High Risk rating.
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