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Eating up the Amazon

Last edited 5 April 2006 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
6 April, 2006

Summary

New Greenpeace research shows how this soya is being fed to the chickens that you eat at places like McDonald's. We have documented thousands of tonnes of soya is being exported from the heart of the Amazon into the UK. The soya is then fed to millions of chickens in the farms that supply McDonald's. This means that every time you buy a Chicken McNugget you're taking a bite out of the Amazon.

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Article tagged as: amazon, forests, mcdonalds, reports, soya, UK

We're trashin' it!

Posted by admin — 4 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Its a cluckin spectacle at McDonalds across the country this morning as Greenpeace volunteers expose McDonalds role in Amazon destruction

The Amazon rainforest covers 5 per cent of the world's land and extends over some 7.8 million kilometres. It is one of the most biodiverse regions on earth - at least 30 per cent of the world's land-based animal and plant species live there. The Amazon is also home to about 220,000 people from 180 different indigenous nations who live deep in the rainforest, and it plays a vital role in maintaining the world's climate.

Article tagged as: agriculture, amazon, brazil, cargill, mcdonalds, santarem, soya

McDonalds to ban meat, milk and eggs from GM-fed animals

Last edited 20 November 2000 at 9:00am
20 November, 2000
gmfree

Fast food chain McDonalds is to ban meat, milk and eggs from farm animals fed on GM crops. The company is now asking its suppliers in the UK to find sources of animal feed that do not contain genetically modifed material.

The dramatic move will almost certainly force other fast food chains to go totally GM-free - Burger King in Germany and the UK has already announced that it will abandon products from animals fed a GM diet. The McDonalds announcement comes after a Greenpeace campaign to end the use of GM animal feed.

Article tagged as: animal feed, GM, mcdonalds, press releases

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