Dec 28, 2020 | Deforestation, Factory farming
China has become the biggest importer of the Brazilian soy, used to produce feed for farmed animals. But this rush for commodities is having consequences on environment and global food security “Sorriso” in Portuguese means “smile”: it is the name of a town in the...
Dec 16, 2020 | Deforestation, Factory farming
Italy uses 3.7 million tons / year of soy for animal production. Only 689 thousand tons are of national origin, all the rest (3.2 million tons) is imported, mainly from Argentina, Brazil, United States, Paraguay. On December 2, 2019 a ship carrying 31,000 tons of...
Oct 26, 2020 | Senza categoria
The images of the fires season in the Cerrado area. “Every year they light the fires, they are burning everything to clean up the area and take over our reserve,” said Lourdes De Farias, a resident of Cláudia, Brazil, in the video. A video reportage (in...
Oct 14, 2020 | Deforestation
A report by the NGO Earthsight links the loss of forest between Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia and the exports of leather in Italy. Importing companies: we respected the rules in Paraguay. Italian leather has been placed at the center of an international dispute...
Sep 21, 2020 | Factory farming, One Health
Biosecure farms complete with staff quarantine and chutes for dead pigs are seen as progress, but may carry their own risks The buildings do not even look like farms. They are huge grey concrete blocks, many storeys high, which stand side by side in the middle of what...
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