Tesco, the large supermarket chain in the UK, promised to ban Brazilian meat because it was causing deforestation. In doing so they positioned themselves as a leader in supporting the environment by reforming supply chains to break free from businesses in South America which are complicit in the destruction of the Amazon Forest primarily by …
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Tesco is a large UK supermarket chain with a declared commitment to curb deforestation. The environmental group Mighty Earth has managed to link Tesco’s Simply Chicken Tenders to Amazonian rainforest deforestation. They charted the supply chain of soya, which was grown on cleared forest, from a farm in Brazil. The rainforest had been burnt to …
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The good news for conservationists and people who don’t see economic growth as the only way to live, is that we have woken up to reports that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won the presidential election in Brazil. Apparently, it was razor tight. With less than 2% of the votes left account, Lula led …
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The world’s human population relentlessly rises and there is real concern but thankfully at last people are talking about it. Some people think that the world is already overpopulated by humans and there are questions as to the maximum human population that the planet can sustain. No doubt there will be improved methods of food …
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Allegedly, British supermarkets are complicit in the deforestation of Brazilian rainforest because some of their supply chain products are linked with Brazilian mega-farms which destroy rainforest. And, their guilt appears to be silently admitted because some refuse to confirm or deny any links with the companys implicated in deforestation. A campaign group, Mighty Earth, has …
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NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): There is a war going on in the Amazon jungle between companies who have been issued with licences to log the forest and illegal operators who work alongside them at much reduced costs and who can therefore sell their wood at a cheaper price. The legal loggers struggle to compete against …
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