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Takeaways from AP’s reporting on an American beef trader’s links to Amazon deforestation

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Published 10:29 PM

By SASHA CHAVKIN
Pulitzer Center

WASHINGTON (AP) — Data analysis by The Associated Press and the Rainforest Investigations Network, a nonprofit reporting consortium, found that a little-known American meat trading company in Utah is feeding China’s growing appetite for Brazilian beef, a commodity that’s driving the deforestation of the Amazon.

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