Judy202
29th November 2020, 10:58
There are few pleasures these days, so taking a bite of your flame-grilled chicken burger may be the one highlight of the week.
Takeaway obviously, if you're in lockdown.
Now, we don't want to take that one pleasure away but that piece of chicken could be contributing to deforestation.
A new investigation has linked British chicken to forests being cleared for agriculture in Brazil.
Greenpeace Unearthed and the Bureau for Investigative Journalism have found that huge areas of forest, in an area called the Cerrado, are being cut down to plant soy beans.
The soy is then shipped back to the UK and sold for animal feed.
The investigation said Tesco, Asda, Lidl, Nandos and McDonalds were all selling meat, sourced from a UK supplier, which had been fed on soy from the Cerrado. The supplier has said it does not source from illegally cleared land.
But many British consumers are unknowingly contributing to this deforestation.
Takeaway obviously, if you're in lockdown.
Now, we don't want to take that one pleasure away but that piece of chicken could be contributing to deforestation.
A new investigation has linked British chicken to forests being cleared for agriculture in Brazil.
Greenpeace Unearthed and the Bureau for Investigative Journalism have found that huge areas of forest, in an area called the Cerrado, are being cut down to plant soy beans.
The soy is then shipped back to the UK and sold for animal feed.
The investigation said Tesco, Asda, Lidl, Nandos and McDonalds were all selling meat, sourced from a UK supplier, which had been fed on soy from the Cerrado. The supplier has said it does not source from illegally cleared land.
But many British consumers are unknowingly contributing to this deforestation.