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Soy Growing in the Amazon Region of Brazil

The Amazon rainforest is being eradicated to plant soy, forcing communities off the land and destroying "the lungs of the planet". Big Agro is right there to export the crops to the USA and Europe.Think about it next time you buy a soy product.



I'm not a Greenpeace fan, far from it, but despite the propaganda there is valuable information to be gleaned. Be smart and know facts from hype.



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Added: Aug-24-2012 
By: khamomil
In: World News, Science and Technology, Nature, Other
Tags: agriculture, soy, Brazil, Amazon rainforest, khamomil
Location: Santarém, Para, Brazil (load item map)
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  • Largest importer of Brazilian soy is China at 57% (2011) and European nations being second in importing in the twenty percentile range. The United States imports 0% of it's soy from Brazil. The US is the worlds number one exporter of soybeans.

    "Be smart and know the facts from hype"

    Also quite a bit of the problem of soy production in the rainforest is land ownership disputes between the indigenous people and Brazilian Government. The only hand US Big Agro has in this was offering More..

    Posted Aug-24-2012 By 
    The Black Orchestra (187.40)  
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    • @The Black Orchestra


      Also, a lot of Americans have sold their farms in America to move and do farming in Brazil....cheaper land and labor. Right about China being the biggest customer....in fact many countries have changed their crops and mining goals to suit the Chinese market....just economics..

      Posted Aug-24-2012 By 
      AxisofEvil (574.18)  

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    • @The Black Orchestra Oh yeah and Cargill buying up the crops and storing them at the plant in dispute.

      Posted Aug-24-2012 By 
      khamomil (1612.14)  

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  • This is exactly what would happen if cannabis was to be legalized and grown on a commercial scale.

    It would also, when grown for fibre, "medicinal" or biofuel purposes, displace crops on arable land, leading to increased food costs and starvation in poorer areas.

    Posted Aug-24-2012 By 
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  • If you think for a little time, the whole world was a great lung.
    So Europe ,America and now China took what they could and now the
    Amazonian Forest is the final reservoir. Humanity is doomed.

    Posted Aug-24-2012 By 
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  • Emotional reporting. Valueless.

    Posted Aug-24-2012 By 
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    • @Triode Thank you very much. I warned you that the reporting was done by Greenpeace which is always boasting of its spectacular interventions.
      Emotions don't destroy the value of a documentary. How would you expect people who have lived off the land forever and been displaced and moved to a slum, or whose family members have been threatened or killed, not to be emotional?
      Your expectations of reporting without emotion is unrealistic. Most of the time it's emotions that make great reporting. But More..

      Posted Aug-24-2012 By 
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    • @khamomil The emotional reporting is really only a bias. I would prefer the facts unadulterated so that I can make my own decisions, not have them made for me by anyone else.

      But thank you for the posted video and I do see your passion for this issue.

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  • So how did the planet breathe before them?

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  • Same story with Palm Oil.

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  • As a U.S. citizen, I would like to congratulate those who are casting the stone of judgement, down on the U.S., for the sin of importing soybeans. Congratulations for being the high and mighty none sinners. I guess that makes you better than U.S. citizens.

    Posted Aug-24-2012 By 
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    • @tarzan Oh come on, casting the stone of judgement, eh? I said the soy is exported to the US AND Europe so don't have a cow. The point is not to say the US is bad and other countries are better. Take a broader view for God's sake. It's not the US per se that is harmful, it's the greed of the Big Agro and Big Anything transnational companies.
      I never put anything on LL to "demonstrate" how bad the US is. I have lived there 20 years and loved the country and still care a lot for it and t More..

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  • In a few years the demand for soy is going to skyrocket. Once the 3D food printers become available people will be creating their own high protein foods with soy being inter-laced into almost everything. People are starving now and we add on a couple million people every month....whats a good soy stock?

    Posted Aug-24-2012 By 
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  • nuke brazil !

    Posted Aug-24-2012 By 
    Othman (290.04)  

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