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Article

1 Apr 2006

Author:
Greenpeace

[PDF] full report: "Eating up the Amazon"

Since...2003, nearly 70,000km2 of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed....In 2004–05 around 1.2 million hectares of soya...was planted in the...rainforest. It is well documented that slave labour is used to clear forest for agriculture....Up to 75% of Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions result from deforestation...Three US-based agricultural commodities giants – Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge and Cargill – are responsible for about 60% of the total financing of soya production in Brazil...Partners in crime: 80% of the world’s soya production is fed to the livestock industry...While we focus on McDonald’s, our investigations have also shown that the same crimes are likely to be on the menu of the majority of European fast food retailers and supermarkets...Grupo André Maggi bears a huge amount of responsibility for ‘reshaping’ the Amazon. [also refers to HSBC, Rabobank, Monsanto, Pizza Hut (part of Yum!), KFC (part of Yum!)]