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A Brazilian cattle-ranching company has received a greenwashing award for illegally bulldozing land belonging to an uncontacted tribe in Paraguay.
The company, Yaguarete Pora S.A., received the prize from indigenous rights group Survival International for suggesting the deforestation of land in Paraguay's Chaco region was 'a noble gesture for conservation'.
While the company's website said it would create a 'nature reserve' on the deforested land, detailed plans submitted to the Paraguayan environment ministry showed that it was clearing two thirds of the 78,549 hectares it owns to make way for cattle ranches.
"Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence"
As the west's appetite for meat increases, so too does the demand for soya - used as animal feed by farmers. But the planting of huge tracts of land is causing deforestation and destroying eco-systems in developing countries.
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