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Just had a thought. Brazil - if you look at mass beef production - and McDonalds. A lot of soya is grown there, too. Even if the environmental laws prohibit xyz, there's still bribery and corruption to consider as possibilities. A lot of these folks just get their way, especially if say government security apparatus is involved, e.g. Cheney's private hit squads.
I'm not saying, just putting it out here.
WITNESS STATEMENT:
name: George Monbiot
section: Environment
for: The Defence
experience: Writer, broadcaster anad academic
There are well-documented cases of torture, rape and unlawful imprisonment by ranchers and their gunmen trying to push people off their lands: I have interviewed some of the victims of these abuses. In several cases ranches have been discovered which are staffed entirely by manacled slaves....
Indirectly, soya plantations have displaced enormous numbers of peasant farmers. The soya farmers have expelled the peasants by a number of means: gunmen have been sent into their villages to drive them away; their houses have been burnt down; titles to their land have been obtained by fraudulent means; the agroindustrialists have monopolised supplies of agricultural credits and funds for infrastructural development. The land of the peasants is ploughed for soya production, destroying the diversity of microhabitats they protected and replacing them with uniform fields....
Brazil provides approximately one third of Europe's soya needs. The principal exporters of Brazilian soya include Cargill USA, Continental Grain USA, Bunge USA, Dreyfuss France and Toepfer.
http://www.mcspotlight.org/people/wi...ot_george.html
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My guess the soy product is Monsanto, but I haven't researched it yet.