"World Bank Loan Withdrawn From Brazilian Cattle Corporation"

[handmade34]

"The move came two weeks after a Greenpeace report, Slaughtering the Amazon, revealed that financial backing for the Brazilian cattle industry had turned it into the largest single source of deforestation in the world."

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0615/1224248850698.html

[flvegan]

1. And to think, we could just choose to not eat them.

Not a suggestion, just an observation.

[handmade34]

2. if only...

we people do have free will and profess to have intelligence

[flvegan]

3. That we do.

[DCKit]

4. Close, but no cigar. I figured they'd refused to cut down the *entire* rainforest...

as the terms of the loan required. The World Bank is no friend of the environment (or the people who have to live in it).

The real shame is that this was a political decision, not an environmental one.