Report links meatpacking companies to ‘war on nature’ in Brazil

Report links meatpacking companies to ‘war on nature’ in Brazil …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva looking out at fires burning in the Pantanal.
Photo: Ricardo STUCKERT / Brazilian Presidency/AFP
Source: AFP

A report by environmental and rights NGOs Tuesday linked three major meatpacking companies to illegal deforestation in Brazil, where farmers are accused of spraying herbicides from the sky to clear huge tracts of land.

The farmers used 2,4-D — a herbicide found in “Agent Orange,” infamously used in the Vietnam War — to clear 81,200 hectares…

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