ECO | Soya’s deadly secret

Meeting the UK’s huge demand for soya requires nearly 1.5 million hectares of land, which is larger than Northern Ireland.

The large majority of this – more than 70 percent – is from countries in South America such as Argentina and Paraguay, where the mass cultivation of soya is driving deforestation, species extinction and wildfires.

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