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‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway (amazonwatch.org)
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Undaunted, the activists in Santarém took on one of the US powerhouses of world trade. Cargill generates revenues of more than $160bn (£119bn) a year, employs 155,000 people and accounts for more than 70% of the soy and maize shipped through Santarém.

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This interrupted one of the focal points of the global food trade because the Cargill facility in Santarém is a primary hub between the nation with the biggest farms – Brazil – and the country with the most numerous dining tables – China, which is the destination for most of the soy.

...which is fed to enslaved animals which the humans in China then eat.

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‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway (amazonwatch.org)
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Undaunted, the activists in Santarém took on one of the US powerhouses of world trade. Cargill generates revenues of more than $160bn (£119bn) a year, employs 155,000 people and accounts for more than 70% of the soy and maize shipped through Santarém.

[...]

This interrupted one of the focal points of the global food trade because the Cargill facility in Santarém is a primary hub between the nation with the biggest farms – Brazil – and the country with the most numerous dining tables – China, which is the destination for most of the soy.

...which is fed to enslaved animals which the humans in China then eat.

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‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway (amazonwatch.org)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/treehuggers@slrpnk.net
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Undaunted, the activists in Santarém took on one of the US powerhouses of world trade. Cargill generates revenues of more than $160bn (£119bn) a year, employs 155,000 people and accounts for more than 70% of the soy and maize shipped through Santarém.

[...]

This interrupted one of the focal points of the global food trade because the Cargill facility in Santarém is a primary hub between the nation with the biggest farms – Brazil – and the country with the most numerous dining tables – China, which is the destination for most of the soy.

...which is fed to enslaved animals which the humans in China then eat.