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'The ABCs of rainforest destruction'
Raising a ruckus about agrofuels at the Chicago Board of Trade |
Tom Philpott |
11 Oct 2007 |
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| From the The Chicago Tribune: Police this morning arrested five people who scaled the Chicago Board of Trade building in the Loop and unfurled a banner to protest the destruction of the world's rain forests. The demonstrators, members of the Rainforest Action Network ... displayed a 50-foot banner protesting three U.S. agriculture companies. The protest was part of a campaign to "halt agribusiness expansion in the rain forests of South America, Southeast Asia an ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, business, Chicago, grassroots activism, industrial ag (all these topics) |
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