Saturday, March 19, 2011

Feedlot Meat Has Spurred a Soy Boom That Has a Devastating Environmental and Human Cost

AlterNet by Jill Richardson - Mar'11
South America is being taken over by a handful of companies in the soy business that are destroying ecologically sensitive areas and pushing people from their ancestral land.  

 

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Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

The BBC A mangrove swamp in Indonesia. Photo by Adnankasogi. The world's coastal mangrove forests, which protect millions of people from...