All posts tagged with plantations
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-(Natural News) The Center for Global Policy released a shocking new report about the slavery of Uighurs and other Turkic minority groups in Xinjiang, China. The report provides evidence that human slavery is being used on a massive scale to advance the Chinese cotton market. More than half a million people, imprisoned in camps, are […]
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-(Natural News) A group of multinational researchers has assessed the connection between trends in crop diversity and agricultural reliance on pollinators and found that the increasing reliance on pollinators, combined with an absence of crop diversity, may threaten agricultural stability. Worldwide agribusiness has expanded at a rapid pace in recent decades, especially in regions that once supported […]
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-(Natural News) A new investigation into the certification standards of coffee plantations all around the world has revealed that, despite prominently and proudly claiming to support “fair trade,” many of the bean suppliers for major corporations like Starbucks are still engaging in slave labor practices behind the scenes. At the Córrego das Almas farm in […]
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