As You Sow
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A leading nonprofit practitioner of shareholder advocacy, filing and supporting shareholder resolutions across environmental and social issues.
Issues this organization works on
Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Consumer Protection
How As You Sow publishes its voting positions
- What it publishes
- Publishes general voting guidelines, but not per-item recommendations asyousow.org
- Written policy
- Published asyousow.org
- Coverage
- No recommendations publishedPublishes 2026 proxy voting guidelines and a filterable tracker of its own resolutions. The tracker describes each resolution and its status but does not carry a vote instruction.
Checked September 11, 2026. If this is out of date or wrong, claim this profile and correct it.
Companies As You Sow has engaged as a shareholder
68 recorded campaigns across 39 companies.
As You Sow at Tyson Foods on waste lagoon harms, 2026
Issue a report, at reasonable expense and omitting proprietary information, disclosing any steps the company is taking to address environmental and human health harms from waste lagoons in its owned facilities and its pork supply chain.
As You Sow (As You Vote) at All portfolio companies covered by the guidelines
Vote against the chief executive where the chief executive also serves as board chair, in support of an independent board at every company; apply an extra level of scrutiny to director votes at about two dozen companies identified as major contributors to climate change; and vote against anti-ESG resolutions. Two further policies are offered, one voting in favour of all female board members and one following Catholic values.
As You Sow at PepsiCo
Issue a report disclosing if and how the company can incorporate pesticide use data in its regenerative agriculture program disclosures.
As You Sow at Albertsons Companies
Assess and report on the effectiveness of due diligence policies addressing deforestation in the avocado supply chain.
As You Sow at Walmart
Assess and report on the effectiveness of due diligence policies for supplier compliance with local law and company standards in the avocado supply chain.
As You Sow at Sprouts Farmers Market
Assess and report on supplier compliance with law and company standards in the avocado supply chain, where clearing for orchards is illegal.
As You Sow at Tyson Foods on waste lagoon harms, 2026
Issue a report, at reasonable expense and omitting proprietary information, disclosing any steps the company is taking to address environmental and human health harms from waste lagoons in its owned facilities and its pork supply chain.
As You Sow at Costco
Establish a due diligence protocol and disclose supplier due diligence to monitor illegal deforestation in the avocado supply chain.
As You Sow at Deere & Company
Report publicly on the effectiveness of Deere's efforts to create a meritocratic workplace where no one is excluded because of an immutable characteristic such as gender, race or ethnicity, giving quantitative outcome metrics for workforce diversity, hiring, promotion and retention.
As You Sow at General Mills
Disclose the pesticide use reductions achieved through its regenerative agriculture program.
As You Sow at Kraft Heinz
Report on the risks of continuing to use flexible plastic packaging that cannot be recycled, meaning pouches, sachets and thin film, and on what the company will do about it.
As You Sow at Amazon
Report on the risks of continuing to use flexible plastic packaging that cannot be recycled, meaning pouches, sachets and thin film, and on what the company will do about it.
As You Sow at Mondelez International
Commit to address the risks of unrecyclable flexible packaging, which accounts for 71 percent of the company's plastic packaging.
As You Sow at PepsiCo
Report on the risks of continuing to use unrecyclable flexible plastic packaging, which makes up more than 18 percent of the company's plastic packaging, and evaluate actions including eliminating it and researching reusable substitutes.
As You Sow at The Home Depot
Report on how the company could match its peers by committing to make all of its packaging recyclable at the curb, reusable or compostable.
As You Sow at Procter & Gamble
Issue a report describing how P&G could address flexible plastic packaging in line with the Pew Report findings to reduce its contribution to plastic pollution.
As You Sow at Amazon.com
Assess and report on how Amazon can reduce its use of unrecyclable flexible plastic packaging and its contribution to plastic pollution.
As You Sow at Tesla
Commit to a moratorium on sourcing minerals from deep-sea mining.
As You Sow at Costco Wholesale
Establish a due diligence protocol to monitor and address illegal deforestation in its avocado supply chain.
As You Sow at First Solar
Establish a policy excluding minerals from deep seabed mining from its supply chain.
As You Sow at General Motors
Implement a sourcing policy excluding deep-sea mined minerals from its supply chains until scientific findings are sufficient to assess the material environmental risks.
Filed a resolution at Hormel Foods on waste-lagoon mitigation practices
As You Sow asked Hormel for a report on mitigation practices addressing waste-lagoon harms at its facilities and in its pork supply chain. Outcome/vote percentage not confirmed.
Filed a resolution at Tyson Foods on waste-lagoon environmental/health harm disclosure
As You Sow asked Tyson to disclose steps addressing environmental and human-health harms caused by animal-waste lagoons in its supply chain. Outcome/vote percentage not confirmed.
As You Sow at Delta Air Lines
Adopt and disclose a non-interference policy upholding freedom of association and collective bargaining, and report on internal and outside spending meant to dissuade employees from unionizing.
As You Sow at Chubb Limited
Measure and disclose greenhouse gas emissions from the company's underwriting, insuring and investment activities in high carbon companies, including fossil fuels.
As You Sow on behalf of Warren Wilson College at Lennar
Report on plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, including disclosures, targets, a transition plan and annual progress tracking.
As You Sow at Kellanova
Disclose the risks pesticide use (including glyphosate) in its agricultural supply chain poses to the company, after Kellanova dropped Kellogg's earlier glyphosate phase-out commitment following the corporate split.
As You Sow at Chubb
Measure and disclose greenhouse gas emissions from underwriting, insuring and investment activities in high-carbon companies.
As You Sow at General Motors
Disclose its policies on the use of deep-sea mined minerals across its supply chain.
As You Sow at Tesla
Commit to a moratorium on sourcing electric vehicle battery metals from deep-sea ecosystems.
As You Sow at Meta Platforms
Strengthen board oversight of harmful material posted on the company's platforms, including false and misleading content.
As You Sow at Tesla
Issue a public report describing if and how Tesla plans to eradicate child labor and forced labor from its supply chain by 2025, including supply chain tracing and transparency.
As You Sow at S&P 500 companies ranked in the 100 Most Overpaid CEOs report, led by Warner Bros. Discovery
Vote against the pay packages of the S&P 500 chief executives the report ranks as most overpaid, ranked on excess pay against total shareholder return, the share of votes already cast against the package, and the ratio of chief executive pay to median employee pay.
As You Sow at PepsiCo
Report to shareholders on the risks that state laws restricting reproductive health care create for the business, and on what the company is doing to limit them.
As You Sow at AbbVie
Stop giving money to politicians and political committees working to restrict access to reproductive health care, or explain how that giving squares with what the company says it stands for.
As You Sow at Verisk Analytics
Address the risk that reproductive health data the company collects and keeps could be exposed, and report to shareholders on how the company protects it.
As You Sow at McDonald's
Issue a report examining the risks and opportunities of adopting reusable packaging systems to cut single-use plastic packaging.
As You Sow at AT&T Inc.
The resolution asked AT&T to publicly disclose how its political contributions align with the company's own stated public-policy priorities and sustainability goals.
As You Sow at Bank of America
Disclose transition plans for meeting the bank's 2030 climate targets.
As You Sow at Goldman Sachs
Publish a climate transition plan showing how the bank will align its financing with its 2030 emissions reduction targets.
As You Sow at Wells Fargo
Publish a climate transition plan showing how the bank will align its financing with its 2030 emissions reduction targets.
As You Sow at Duke Energy
Include upstream methane leakage, customer use emissions and purchased power emissions within the company's net-zero-by-2050 target.
As You Sow at Chevron on net zero 2050 accounting, 2022
Provide an audited report on how applying the assumptions of the IEA's Net Zero by 2050 pathway would affect the assumptions and estimates underlying the company's financial statements, including long-term commodity and carbon prices, remaining asset lives, existing and future asset retirement obligations, capital expenditures and asset valuations.
As You Sow at Alphabet
Provide quantitative, location-specific water use data and disclose plans to mitigate water risks at data centers in water-stressed regions.
As You Sow at PepsiCo
Report on actions PepsiCo could take to reduce its reliance on single-use plastic packaging, including strengthening refillable-bottle goals.
As You Sow at Amazon
Reduce plastic packaging used to ship orders and report on the company's plans to do so.
Filed a resolution at Brinker International on ending medically important antibiotics in beef and pork
Follow-up resolution asking Brinker for measures to end use of medically important antibiotics specifically in its beef and pork supply chains. Outcome/vote percentage not confirmed.
As You Sow at ExxonMobil
Publish an audited report assessing how the IEA Net Zero by 2050 pathway would affect the assumptions underlying the company's financial statements.
As You Sow at Kroger
Issue a report by December 2021 estimating how much plastic packaging Kroger releases into the environment and describing the company's strategy to reduce plastic packaging.
As You Sow at Sempra Energy
Report on how the company's lobbying, including through SoCalGas, aligns with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, in light of its opposition to building electrification and clean truck policy.
As You Sow at Booking Holdings Inc.
Publish a plan showing how the company will bring its emissions to net zero in line with the Paris climate agreement, and report on it to shareholders each year.
Filed a resolution at Costco to phase out antibiotics in private-label chicken
Asked Costco specifically to phase out medically important antibiotics in its private-label chicken supply chain. Outcome/vote percentage not confirmed.
As You Sow at ExxonMobil
Report on whether and how the company intends to reduce its total carbon footprint in alignment with net zero emissions by 2050.
As You Sow at Kellogg
Eliminate the use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying (desiccant) agent on wheat and oats in Kellogg's supply chain.
Filed a resolution at Dine Brands for quantitative antibiotic-use metrics
Asked Dine Brands (IHOP/Applebee's) to disclose quantitative metrics on medically important antibiotic use across its meat supply chains. Outcome/vote percentage not confirmed.
As You Sow at Pinnacle West Capital (Arizona Public Service)
Reduce the company's reliance on fossil fuel generation and address greenhouse gas emissions.
As You Sow at Hanesbrands
Report on the company's process for identifying and analyzing human-rights and forced-labor risk in its supply chain
As You Sow at Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, the listed parent of Arizona Public Service
Cut the company's reliance on fossil fuel generation and set out how it will move its Arizona utility to clean power.
Filed a resolution at Costco on antibiotic-use disclosure in meat/poultry supply chain
Follow-up to the 2018 phase-out resolution, asking specifically for disclosure of antibiotic use data across Costco's meat and poultry supply chain. Outcome/vote percentage not confirmed.
As You Sow at Ford Motor Company
Publish a report describing whether and how the company's fleet greenhouse gas emissions through 2025 will increase given planned changes in fleet mix and the potential weakening of CAFE standards, or how it will keep emissions consistent with those standards.
As You Sow and American Baptist Home Mission Society at Tyson Foods on water stewardship, 2018
Adopt and implement a water stewardship policy designed to reduce the risk of water contamination at Tyson-owned facilities, facilities under contract to Tyson and Tyson's feed suppliers, including leading practices for nutrient management and pollutant limits with a focus on verifiably reducing nitrate contamination, time-bound goals and metrics, financial and technical support for implementation, and a transparent mechanism for disclosing progress.
As You Sow at Sanderson Farms, Inc.
Adopt a company-wide policy to phase out antibiotics that matter to human medicine when used to prevent disease rather than treat it, and publish a timetable.
Won 15%+ support on a Denny's resolution to stop routine antibiotic use in healthy livestock
As You Sow and the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica (a Denny's shareholder) asked Denny's to stop administering medically important antibiotics to healthy livestock in its supply chain. The proposal received over 15% shareholder support.
Filed a resolution at Brinker International to end routine antibiotic use in healthy animals
Predecessor to As You Sow's 2022 Brinker filing; asked the company to end routine (non-therapeutic) antibiotic use across its supply chain. Outcome/vote percentage not confirmed.
Filed a resolution at Costco to adopt an enterprise-wide antibiotic phase-out policy
As You Sow asked Costco to adopt a policy phasing out routine use of medically important antibiotics across its meat and poultry supply chain. Outcome/vote percentage not confirmed in sources reviewed.
As You Sow at Sanderson Farms, Inc.
Report on ending the routine use of antibiotics that matter to human medicine in the company's poultry.
As You Sow at Restaurant Brands International Inc.
Stop using antibiotics in the chicken it buys except to treat sick birds.
As You Sow at Yum! Brands, Inc.
Stop using antibiotics in the chicken it buys except to treat sick birds.
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