McDonald's devastating Amazon
Autor: Ozeias Rocha | Publicado: 2008-03-29T19:29:00-07:00

Greenpeace argues that the Amazon's soybean turns diet of chicken of the network of fast-food; company promised to investigate the case After the hamburger connection, the connection Chicken McNuggets. A report of the NGO environmentalist Greenpeace, released yesterday, says that consumers of fast food in Europe may be unwittingly contributing to the deforestation in the Amazon, to consume chicken fed soy planted in the region of the forest. The document, entitled "eating the Amazon," says that McDonald's, largest network of fast-food in the world, buying chicken from Cargill, a subsidiary of American multinational of food, pointed by Greenpeace as a major "criminal" behind the expansion predatory of soy in the Amazon. Cargill said he could not comment on the report, received by him only yesterday. The direction of McDonald's in Britain said that begin "immediately" an investigation into the case. "The production of soya incorporates a huge chain of illegalities, and they end on the plate of someone in Europe," said yesterday the coordinator of Greenpeace's Amazon campaign, Paulo Adário. These unlawful actions of deforestation go beyond the legal reserve (a Brazilian law stipulates that 80% of the area of property in the Amazon must be maintained as forest, determining that almost anyone meets) to the use of slave labour, as in farms of Para and Mato Grosso. He said that the report is the result of a year of investigations made by the NGOs, which accompanied shipments of soybeans emerged from Amazon. Multinationals According to Greenpeace, the soybean is now the greatest threat to forest, and had a crucial role in the explosion of deforestation in recent years (in 2003/2004, the devastation reached 27,000 km2). Mato Grosso, the main producer of grain in the country - and absolute champion of deforestation-, saw the area planted with soybean fold since 1996. Forced by increased global demand and the abundance of land in the Amazon, large multinational food, the U.S. began to invest in infrastructure such as roads and silos, and the financing of producer of soybeans in the region. According to the report by Greenpeace, 60% of the financing for the production of soybean in the country comes from three companies: the ADM, Bunge and Cargill. The latter is classified as a major bad guy of three. The indictment is due mainly to the construction of a port for disposal of soybeans in Santarém, in Pará The port of Cargill disputes suffered by the prosecutor, who considered insufficient environmental impact studies submitted for the work. The port was also the inducer of the recent expansion of soybeans for the region from Sydney. From the port of Santarém the soybean goes to Liverpool, England, where it is processed by Sun Valley, a subsidiary of Cargill that uses the oleaginous as diet of chicken. Sun Valley is the main supplier of chicken for McDonald's in 46 countries. Chicken Adário called this commercial web of "connection Chicken McNuggets" in reference to the term "connection hamburger," created by Norman Myers ecologist in the decade of 1980 to explain how the increase in the consumption of meat in the United States was increasing herd cattle and deforestation in America South "We are asking that McDonald's menu tire of the Amazon," he said. "We are very concerned about these issues to the environment both in relation to our role as the responsibilities of all our network of suppliers," said the director of Quality and Safety of McDonald's Europe, Keith Kenny. "In addition to carefully review the report immediately begin an investigation on the case