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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jane Dalton

KFC and UK supermarkets’ chicken ‘hide indigenous rights abuses in Brazil’

Earthsight / De Olho nos Ruralistas

UK supermarket chains and fast-food giant KFC are buying chicken fed on soya from a Brazilian farm where indigenous people were evicted from their land, environmental investigators claim.

Sainsbury’s, Aldi, Iceland and KFC, among others, are accused of sourcing the meat from a Worcestershire company that buys chickens bred on a soya farm created when an indigenous group was forcibly evicted in the 1950s.

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