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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jane Dalton

Tesco, KFC and other top brands could be selling chicken linked to illegal deforestation, report says

Major supermarkets and fast-food chains could be selling chicken fed with soya grown on land illegally deforested in some of the world’s most endangered ecosystems, a report is claiming.

Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and fast-food chains KFC and McDonald’s could be in danger of accidentally breaching new forest-protection laws after climate campaigners discovered a major UK supplier of chicken is linked to a business repeatedly accused of deforestation in Brazil.

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