quotes:

I am able to show the link between the expansion of the biggest fast food chain, the worldwide expanding corporation McDonlad's (McD) and the escalation of the hunger in the world. Whereas in Brazil about half of the population suffers of hunger, soya is not been sold or distributed to the people. But is for export where it will be fed to McD cattle.

Today in Brazil about 20% of the farmland is used for soya. According to a study from the university of Sao Paulo, Brazil these areas were used in earlier days to over 80% to produce food supplies like rice, beans, manjok. In those days, you needed 6-8 times the manpower: the direct consequence for the people in Brazil: starvation and unemployment.

links:

• Witness Statement
  
• The Issues - Environment Section
• Zum Beispiel Soya - Siegfried Pater and Boris Terpinc