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As world leaders meet for the UN #ClimateSummit2019, here’s a few reminders of why food lies at the heart of the crisis….
Meat is the new commodity, controlled by just a handful of gigantic firms which together wield unprecedented control over global food production thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-0…
Swathes of the Amazon are lost each day for cattle farming - cattle which are turned into beef that goes all over the world: thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-0…
Supply chains are often invisible so consumers at the other end would have no idea the beef is Brazilian: thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-0…
Private equity firms Capital and BlackRock are coming under pressure for investing in Brazilian giant JBS, reports the @FinancialTimes today: ft.com/content/8a42db… 
@FinancialTimes Even if you don’t eat beef, you can still fill the pockets of the major Brazilian meat firms, thanks to their vast global networks of subsidiaries producing chicken, pork, lamb and leather
@FinancialTimes And even if you only buy British, the rise of industrialised farming here means domestic meat production is fuelling our own environmental crisis: thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-0…
@FinancialTimes Explore our full project investigating the power behind the global food chain: thebureauinvestigates.com/projects/food-…
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