Eating up the Amazon

Authors Greenpeace
Title Eating up the Amazon
Publisher Greenpeace
Place Amsterdam
Year 2006
Pages 62
Category Tropenwald/Indigene Völker in Zentral- und Südamerika (ZS)
Signature 45
Language en
Content Brazil’s soy industry connected to spiralling demand for soya animal feed from European agribusiness is leading to the Destruction of the Amazon rainforest. The report illustrates the soya crisis through the example of two key global players: Cargill and McDonald’s and names the environmental and social costs (e.g. slave labour)
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