• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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    6 hours ago

    Ok, ultra corrupt and all, but at least from environmental pov (especially water) killing soy where USA grew it en masse is a really good thing afaik.
    It was too forced & unsustainable.

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      4 hours ago

      I dont know if country’s in south America are filling the gap the US created, but if yes its probably much worse than farming in the US.

      I once had the chance to hear a lecture from a Brazilian professor about how soy gets grown in Brasil and that shit was terrifying. Slavery like working conditions. Corruption, massive landgrabs, insane use of pesticides (they literally used to apply them with airplanes until it got banned due to health “concerns” (it actively destroys your health) for the civilians) and mono cultures all the way through. It was very informative, but fucking scary. Due to the fact that massive sizes of land are not really listed and nobody owns them. So farmers are literally creating their own documents, that say they own certain land, put them in a drawer with crickets, so the paper looks older than it is, go to the local government and surprise, they now own even more land.

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        4 hours ago

        Very true.
        Tho that is true for any industry in such countries.

        And it’s not like fairly similar things don’t happen in USA farming.