ITV News published this video item, entitled “How Britain’s chicken addiction is driving deforestation in Brazil | ITV News” – below is their description.
From the air, it looks like a wildfire. Columns of smoke obscuring the horizon, a blazing front of flames consuming a vast expanse of tropical woodland. You can’t see the flames or smell the smoke – it’s happening 5,000 miles away – but this fire was set deliberately, to help rear the chicken that you buy on the high street. An investigation by ITV News, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Greenpeace’s Unearthed team and The Guardian has unpicked the complex supply chain driving this deforestation. At its root is soybeans, a key ingredient in chicken feed. We’ve been able to track the journey of the soya bean from deforested land to the feed mills and then chicken farms and on to the shelves of Britain’s leading supermarkets and fast-food outlets.
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