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Amazon Port Pits Farmers Vs. Rainforest
Posted at 1:28 PM on July 19, 2006 by Preston Wright
Minnesota-based company Cargill is the newest "villian" in the fight to save the rainforest of Brazil, according to Greenpeace.
Amazon Port Pits Farmers Vs. Rainforest
It also can't be good news for Minnesota farmers who are struggling with their soybean crops because of drought and high labor prices. Minnetonka company Cargill is under-cutting local farmers by promoting chopping down the Amazon in what appears to be an illegal manner. The forest is replaced by soybeans produced with cheap labor.
Minnesota Public Radio ran a story about this in 1998, but it appears to have fallen off the radar.
"A year ago [1997] Cargill caused a farmer uproar by importing soybeans. Johnson says that was an instance where poultry growers in the southeastern United States needed soy meal at a time when stock piles were not high in the U.S. and prices were lower in Brazil."
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