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Supermarkets (siêu thị) and fast food outlets (cửa hàng ăn nhanh) are selling chicken fed on imported soya linked to thousands of forest fires (cháy rừng) and at least 300 sq miles (800 sq km) of tree clearance in the Brazilian Cerrado, a joint cross-border investigation (điều tra chung xuyên biên giới) has revealed (tiết lộ).

Tesco, Lidl, Asda, McDonald’s, Nando’s and other high street retailers all source chicken fed on soya supplied by trading behemoth (gã khổng lồ thương mại) Cargill, the US’s second largest private company (công ty tư nhân lớn thứ hai mỹ). The combination of minimal protection for the Cerrado – a globally important carbon sink (đầm lầy) and wildlife habitat (môi trường sống động vật hoang dã) – with an opaque supply chain (chuỗi cung ứng mù mờ) and confusing labelling systems (hệ thống dán nhãn gây khó hiểu), means that shoppers may be inadvertently (tình cờ, không cố ý) contributing to its destruction.

...So where, exactly, is this soya originating from? Avara’s supplier, Cargill, buys soya from many suppliers in the Cerrado, at least nine of which have been involved in recent land clearance. Analysis by the consultancy Aidenvironment of the land owned or used by these companies since 2015 found 801 sq km of deforestation – an area equivalent to 16 Manhattans. It also detected 12,397 recorded fires.

The Brazilian government has steadily (đều đặn) relaxed controls on deforestation (nới lỏng kiểm soát về phá rừng) – and sometimes tacitly (ngầm, không nói ra, ngụ ý) encouraged it – over the past decade, most notably by the relaxation of the Forest Code in 2012.

The UK imports 700,000 tonnes of raw soya beans each year, many from the Cerrado, It also buys almost three times this quantity of processed soya feed, the majority from Argentina.