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Coyotl

(15,262 posts) Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:32 AM Mar 2013

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Brazil supermarkets 'to avoid Amazon meat'

The main group representing supermarkets in Brazil says it will no longer sell meat from cattle raised in the rainforest.

The Brazilian Association of Supermarkets, which has 2,800 members, hopes the deal will cut down on the illegal use of rainforest for pasture.

Deforestation in the Amazon has slowed over the past years but invasion of public land continues to be a problem.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21934025

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Brazil supermarkets 'to avoid Amazon meat' (Original Post) Coyotl Mar 2013 OP

Good on them! MineralMan Mar 2013 #1

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)

1. Good on them!

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Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:42 AM

Mar 2013

If there's no money in it, the practice will stop.

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