Tesco supplier accused of contributing to Amazon rainforest destruction

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Source: The Guardian

British consumers are unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the Amazon rainforest by buying meat products from Tesco, according to Greenpeace.

The environmental group says in a report that canned beef from the supermarket chain has been found to contain meat from ranches that have been carved out of the lands of indigenous peoples, and farms the Brazilian government believes have been sited in illegally deforested lands.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/06/tesco-supplier-amazon-rainforest-destruction

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1. we would all do well to

cut back on commercially produced meat... losing the tropical rain forests is devastating and we are relatively quickly self-destructing

"Every two seconds, an area of forest the size of a football pitch is lost due to logging or destructive practices. Seventy two per cent of Indonesia's intact forest landscapes and 15 per cent of the Amazon's have already been lost forever. Now the Congo's forests face the same threat... While the causes vary from region to region, they all have one thing in common: human activity. Through agriculture and logging, mining and climate change, humankind is wiping out irreplaceable forests - and the life that depends on them - at a terrifying pace..."


http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/forests/threats/

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2. there's nothing but bad news on the environmental front, thanks to the corPOS