{"id":661139,"date":"2020-07-16T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=661139"},"modified":"2020-07-16T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:00:01","slug":"revealing-brazils-rotten-agribusinesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=661139","title":{"rendered":"Revealing Brazil&#039;s rotten agribusinesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports that Brazil&#8217;s current deforestation rate\u20141 million hectares\u2014is the highest in a decade, a peer-reviewed study published in Science today finds that 18-22%, and possibly more, of Brazil&#8217;s annual exports to the European Union are potentially contaminated with illegal deforestation, while identifying for the first time the specific producers of soy in Brazil responsible for &#8220;poisoning the barrel.&#8221; Unveiling these &#8220;bad apples&#8221; among soy and beef producers, but also revealing that a vast majority\u2014some 80% of the country&#8217;s farmers\u2014abide by the Forest Code law, the study suggests deforestation-free Brazilian agricultural production is within reach, if leaders act.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-07-revealing-brazil-rotten-agribusinesses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Revealing Brazil&#8217;s rotten agribusinesses<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports that Brazil&#8217;s current deforestation rate\u20141 million hectares\u2014is the highest in a decade, a peer-reviewed study published in Science today finds that 18-22%, and possibly more, of Brazil&#8217;s annual&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}