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Food crisis resolved!
Let's raze more Amazon rainforest! |
Tom Philpott |
28 Apr 2008 |
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| Blairo Maggi is a powerful man in Brazil. He owns a company called Grupo Andre Maggi that runs vast soybean plantations in the state of Matto Grasso, which straddles the Amazon rainforest and what the Nature Conservancy calls 'the world's most biologically rich savanna.' The New York Times has called Maggi 'the largest soybean grower in the world ... with 400,000 acres of his own under production.' Maggi works closely with the world's biggest soybean processors: Arch ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, food, rainforests (all these topics) |
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