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 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...
Jul 31, 2020 | Deforestation
The main beef producer in Brazil is directly involved in supplying cattle from areas of the Amazon that have been illegally deforested. This meat continues to arrive in large amounts in Italy, where it is used for the production of Bresaola della Valtellina and canned...
Jul 21, 2020 | Deforestation
“We are seeing the same trends of deforestation, in the same areas of the Amazon and also in the developing regions of the Cerrado, but the rates are higher than last year” A new fire season in the Brazilian Amazon has just begun, with 1.444 fires recorded in the...
Jun 16, 2020 | Deforestation
The free trade agreement between EU and MERCOSUR is going to increase the amount of forest risk commodities such as beef and soy imported in Europe. The free trade agreement between European Union and Mercosur countries could have serious consequences on the...
Apr 26, 2020 | Deforestation, Factory farming, One Health
According to different estimates based on FAO data, every year globally over 150 billion animals (also taking into account fishing) end up in our food production cycle, of which at least 80 billion through intensive farming. The magnitude of this number is even more...
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