03.04.2018 - 19:23 [ teleSUR ]

Meat, Soy Industries Are Guilty of Deforestation, Human Rights Violations in Latin America: Report

The study released this week pointed to two United States-based agribusinesses, Cargill and Bunge, along with several European companies, as the critical drivers for the extensive destruction. These companies according to the report stood out for their role in the widespread damage caused to Latin American forest areas for soy in the Brazilian Cerrado and Bolivian Amazon Basin in a previous investigation.