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Friday 5 November 2021 20:20, UK
Stuart Ramsay
In the stifling muggy heat of the port town of Santarem, deep in the Amazon, cowboys and river bargemen are preparing to move another load of steers downriver as they are slowly but surely - and completely illegally - entered into the world's food chain.
These steers are unregistered; they have no legitimate markings, just the occasional yellow tag indicating they have been sold.
The cattle have been raised on ranches with "irregularities" including illegal deforestation, but once they leave port they get mixed in with legitimate cattle, enabling the sale of their meat on the global market.
They are Amazon rainforest cattle and part of a multimillion-pound beef washing conspiracy with Brazil's Amazon at its heart.
80% of the Amazon rainforest is being cut down by ranchers who want more pastureland, a figure based on data from a 2019 study by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Other studies put the figure at closer to 90%.
https://news.sky.com/story/multimill...snt-sf-twitter
Stuart Ramsay
In the stifling muggy heat of the port town of Santarem, deep in the Amazon, cowboys and river bargemen are preparing to move another load of steers downriver as they are slowly but surely - and completely illegally - entered into the world's food chain.
These steers are unregistered; they have no legitimate markings, just the occasional yellow tag indicating they have been sold.
The cattle have been raised on ranches with "irregularities" including illegal deforestation, but once they leave port they get mixed in with legitimate cattle, enabling the sale of their meat on the global market.
They are Amazon rainforest cattle and part of a multimillion-pound beef washing conspiracy with Brazil's Amazon at its heart.
80% of the Amazon rainforest is being cut down by ranchers who want more pastureland, a figure based on data from a 2019 study by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Other studies put the figure at closer to 90%.
https://news.sky.com/story/multimill...snt-sf-twitter