Comments on: World’s Largest Leather Exporter Backs Out of Amazon

By: Deforestation Rates in Brazilian Amazon Dropped 47% in August – EcoLocalizer

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:02:23 +0000

[...] and extend a moratorium on buying soya linked to Amazon destruction, and then they got the world’s largest leather exporter and the world’s largest meat exporter to back out of the [...]

By: Nike Cuts Footprint, Launches GreenXchange, & More « Green Commentaries Around the Web

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:20:18 +0000

[...] for a strong clean energy and climate bill in Congress on its own and in concert with others and it has helped to reduce deforestation of the Amazon. Now, Nike has also just reported that it reduced its own carbon footprint last year while still [...]

By: Nike Opposes US Chamber of Commerce & Leaves Board, due to Climate Change : EcoWorldly

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:02:08 +0000

[...] Nike continues to be a world leader on environmental issues. It urged Congress to take action on climate change in combination with other major companies (i.e. Starbucks, Timberland, and Levi Strauss) in the past. It has recently engaged in strong alternative transportation advocacy campaigns and successul efforts to stop Amazon destruction. [...]

By: Amazon Says Goodbye to World’s Largest Meat Exporter : EcoWorldly

Amazon Says Goodbye to World’s Largest Meat Exporter : EcoWorldly — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:33:51 +0000

[...] month, I wrote about the world’s largest leather exporter leaving the Amazon. This week there is even bigger news. The world’s largest meat [...]

By: Bea Elliott

Bea Elliott — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:28:57 +0000

Unfortunately JBS also just purchased facilities to maintain control of their leather manufacturing… They will be selling finished hides to Europe and China. They have no intention of heeding Greenpeace.

By: Gerard Vaughan

Gerard Vaughan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:00:52 +0000

Well done Greenpeace, and the companies involved. If you were collectively called Johanna, and I was Eddy Grant, then you would indeed have given me hope !
As it is, you have done as much for me anyway.
The rule which seems immutable is “If it pays, we carry-on doing it”. It isn’t easy to prevent things that pay, from being Done. It requires police, then Armies to do so. It’s all over the place. See the news. Poppy farming ? – Great idea !
Strangely, “modern windfarms” (my pet hate and subject) Don’t pay at all – exept as “PC” statements to cover for “nuclear expansion” – yet ( and so ?)governments continue to “invest” !! – at 0.15-odd % p.a. return.
It may seem an untrue statement to say that this is effectively another big “crime against the biosphere ?” but in fact it IS, because it is an overall addition of CO2 to the atmosphere, whilst lulling into a totally false sense of well-being those who can neither have thought much about, nor investigated, “windfarms” at all.
As far as I can see, they serve the equivalent function for the general public, that the armfull of junk serves to the individual. Very happy to be shown to be wrong.
Good government must surely consist of “Realists”, but sadly it seems that such are all? defeated by politicians, somehow.

By: Frank Docherty

Frank Docherty — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:10:47 +0000

The exploitation of slave labour and our enviroment is the most hanous and prevalent crime against humanity, world-wide. The profits of such crimes are in fact what is called the “proceeds of crime”, and, should be prosecuted as such.