date:May 14, 2012
n the reliance on imported soy.
South America's soy industry has been blamed for directly and indirectly devastating some of the world's most important ecologies. Campaigners claim that soy expansion into the Cerrado biome in Brazil a unique habitat of grassland, scrub, woodland and rivers which is home to 5% of the planet's biodiversity has already destroyed more than 70% of the region's original vegetation, with a further 9.6m hectares expected to be lost by 2020. They also warn that soy pla