UK fast food chains linked by campaigners to Brazil's forest fires: BBC
Greenpeace says soya use is “one of the biggest drivers of deforestation worldwide”.
UK's largest fast-food chains have been selling meat from animals fed on soya beans linked to forest fires in Brazil, campaigners claim.
"All of the big fast-food companies use soya in animal feed, none of them know where it comes from and soya is one of the biggest drivers of deforestation worldwide,” Greenpeace head of forests Richard George told the BBC.
Environmental campaigners claim ongoing fires in both the Amazon and Cerrado regions of Brazil are being lit deliberately to clear land for raising animals and growing crops.
EU figures reveal that some 2.5 million tonnes of soya is imported into the UK each year, with a large proportion used to feed farm animals. A third of these, according to analysis from BBC News, came from Brazil.
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