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 Stories About: Amazon AND deforestation AND food and agriculture AND news
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Don't Make Me Pull This Cargill Over
Amazon soy export plant shut down in win for environmentalists |
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28 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Don't Make Me Pull This Cargill Over Amazon soy export plant shut down in win for environmentalists Greens did a victory dance this weekend as Brazil forced U.S. agribiz giant Cargill to close a soy export terminal in the country's Amazon region. The facility has long been the focus of a targeted Greenpeace campaign protesting rapid deforestation of the tropical rainforest -- which lost about 6,5 ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Big Ag, deforestation, food and agriculture, news (all these topics) |
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Vegetarians Are Ruining the Planet
Cargill pushes soy farming that's obliterating the Amazon |
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18 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Vegetarians Are Ruining the Planet Cargill pushes soy farming that's obliterating the Amazon Soy production has overtaken logging and cattle ranching as the main source of Amazon rainforest destruction. In the past three years, nearly 27,000 square miles of the Amazon have been destroyed, nearly three-quarters of it illegally. Much of the acreage was sold to soy producers, financed in large part by agribu ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, deforestation, food and agriculture, news (all these topics) |
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Soy Triste
Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up |
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19 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Soy Triste Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up More than 10,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest disappeared from Brazil in 2004, the second-highest level of deforestation ever recorded, thanks mainly to the expansion of soy farming. As U.S.-state comparisons are de rigueur in these stories: that's an area the size of Massachusetts. Though Brazil's government imp ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, logging, news, rainforests (all these topics) |
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