Deforestation concerns
Our story reporting on a probe by Mighty Earth that linked US soy trader, Bunge, to the equivalent of 15,897 soccer fields of recent deforestation in the threatened Cerrado savannah in Brazil, had readers clicking.
EU supermarkets including Carrefour and Casino in France, Ahold Delhaize, and Jumbo in the Netherlands as well as Aldi South from Germany had reportedly launched investigations following the publication of the findings.
The Mighty Earth led investigation claimed Bunge bought soy recently from three suppliers responsible for 11,351 hectares of deforestation in the Brazilian Cerrado, cleared after 2021. Invoices of the transported grain loads confirmed the commercial operations and associated Bunge facilities directly to three farms where deforestation occurred, said the campaigners.
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