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PMI Foods is a major buyer and shipper of Brazilian beef, almost all of it to China. But it's biggest supplier of Brazilian beef has been cited for raising...
According to data analysis by The Associated Press and the Rainforest Investigations Network, a nonprofit reporting consortium, an American company is among the key beef suppliers and distributors contributing to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A little-known Utah-based meat trader, PMI Foods, has shipped more than $1.7 billion in Brazilian beef over the last decade, almost all of it to China. PMI’s role provides a window into how the growing international beef trade is fueling destruction of the world’s largest rainforest, and how middlemen who contribute to that trade h...
How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction. This report's data analysis and graphics, by Andre Tartar and Mira Rojanasakul, can be found by clicking here. São Félix do Xingu is a modern-day Wild West hacked out of Brazil’s Amazon jungle by...
Brazil committed this month to end illegal deforestation in eight years, but a government report raises questions about its intent and ability to meet that target.
The world's biggest rainforest is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs.