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Food companies and grocers urge commodity suppliers to refuse soybeans from deforested areas in Brazil

Wednesday, December 16th 2020 - 09:08 UTC
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Some of the world’s largest food companies and grocers urged commodity suppliers including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co, Bunge Ltd, Cargill Inc and Louis Dreyfus Co. to stop trading soybeans associated with deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region, a savanna that is a hive of biodiversity and one of the country’s most important carbon sinks. Read full article

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  • FortHay

    By this reasoning, the rest of the world should boycott ADM and other corn traders for not allowing the buffalo to roam on unimproved prairie lands

    Dec 16th, 2020 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pugol-H

    If you ignore the intervening 150 years or so.

    Dec 16th, 2020 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse -2

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