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China's coming land grab
More hidden costs of our love affair with cheap imported goods |
Tom Philpott |
11 May 2008 |
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| Remember a couple of weeks ago, when a Brazilian soy magnate turned a voracious eye on the Amazon rainforest, marveling at how awesome it would be to raze more of it to plant soy? Blairo Maggi, known as Brazil's 'soy king,' said this: With the worsening of the global food crisis, the time is coming when it will be inevitable to discuss whether we preserve the environment or produce more food. There is no way to produce more food without occupying more land and taking d ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, Brazil, China, economy, rainforests (all these topics) |
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