Feed supplier to UK farm animals still linked to Amazon deforestation

Cargill, which had pledged to clean up its supply chain, sells feed for many of the billion chickens killed annually in UK

A major supplier of animal feed is still buying soya and corn from a farm linked to deforestation in the Amazon, despite having pledged to clean up its global supply chains.

Cargill, a giant agricultural multinational that sells feed to British chicken farms, buys crops from a farm growing soybeans on deforested land in the Brazilian Amazon.

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(SOURCE) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/14/feed-supplier-to-uk-farm-animals-still-linked-to-amazon-deforestation

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