EATING UP THE AMAZON 1
EATING UP THE AMAZON 1
EATING UP THE AMAZON 1
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‘The new owners of Brazil’s soy industry<br />
are the same companies that dominate<br />
the seeds, fertilizers, growing, shipping and<br />
sales of US soybeans. Cargill, Archer Daniels<br />
Midland and Bunge alone control more<br />
than 60% of Brazil’s soy exports.’<br />
Glen Switkes, ‘Feedstuffs’ – a US Farm<br />
Bureau publication, 30 April 2001 44<br />
‘As radical as it sounds, the prediction that<br />
170 million hectares of new farmland<br />
could potentially be brought under crop<br />
production in Brazil might still be considered<br />
a conservative estimate [as it] ignores<br />
the actual scope of deforestation that is<br />
occurring and is likely to continue to occur<br />
in the Amazon Basin … Large-scale farmers<br />
are currently responsible for the lion’s share<br />
of Amazon deforestation, and their access to<br />
new land parcels will be accentuated by new<br />
road development.’<br />
USDA, ‘Brazil: future agricultural expansion<br />
potential underrated’ 21 January 2003 45