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If you eat meat, you probably buy products made by one Brazilian company. A company with such power it can openly admit to having bribed more than 1,000 politicians and continue to grow despite scandal after scandal. And you’ve probably never heard of it.

Revealed: rampant deforestation of Amazon driven by global greed for meat

The cows grazed under the midday Amazon sun, near a wooden bridge spanning a river. It was an idyllic scene of pastoral quiet, occasionally broken by a motorbike growling on the dirt road that cuts through part of the Lagoa do Triunfo cattle farm to a nearby community.

Meat multinationals 'jeopardising Paris climate goals'

Meat companies may be “putting the implementation of the Paris agreement in jeopardy”, according to a groundbreaking index.

Farm pollution

The Guardian • 18th June 2019

Ammonia pollution damaging more than 60% of UK land – report

Ammonia and nitrogen pollution, mostly from farms, is harming more than 60% of the UK’s land area and hitting the most sensitive habitats for plants and wildlife hardest, a government report has found, despite there being no clear plans to monitor or reduce its impact.

The Guardian • 13th June 2019

Testing reveals ammonia pollutant hotspots at UK farms

Testing carried out by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism around eight dairy units in the UK has revealed ammonia hotspots at three of them.

The Guardian • 13th June 2019

Revealed: UK government failing to tackle rise of serious air pollutant

Evidence obtained by a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Channel 4 News suggests that at least 3,000 deaths each year could be avoided if agricultural ammonia emissions were halved.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism • 21st August 2017

Dirty business: The livestock farms polluting the UK

Lynda and Richard Whittemore bought Quennells farm, in the quiet Sussex countryside, six years ago. They hoped to lead “an idyllic lifestyle”, tending their flock of 400 pedigree, grass-fed Lleyn sheep and 45 Highland cattle on 180 acres of farmland.

The Guardian • 21st August 2017

Serious farm pollution breaches rise in UK – and many go unprosecuted

Serious pollution incidents in the UK from livestock farms are now a weekly occurrence, leading to damage to wildlife, fish, farm livestock and air and water pollution.

The Guardian • 21st August 2017

'Thick, black tarry stuff flowed down our stream': how slurry spills affect the land

Lynda and Richard Whittemore bought Quennells farm in the quiet Sussex countryside six years ago. They were hoping for what Lynda calls “an idyllic lifestyle”, tending their flock of 400 pedigree sheep and 45 cattle on 180 acres of farmland.

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Antibiotic pollution

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism • 18th October 2016

How dirty production of NHS drugs helps create superbugs

The NHS is buying drugs from pharmaceutical companies in India whose dirty production methods are fuelling the rise of superbugs, and there are no checks or regulations in place to stop this happening, according to a major new investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

iNews • 18th October 2016

'Super-bugs' being fuelled by foreign NHS drug contracts, report

The Government is to consider imposing new rules on factories abroad which supply the NHS with millions of antibiotics every year following evidence suggesting that pollution from pharmaceutical plants in India is fuelling the rise of lethal superbugs.

The Ecologist • 26th October 2016

Revealed: the hidden pollution linked to drug factories

The growth in superbugs - infections which are resistant to antibiotics - is one of the biggest public health crises facing the world today, and pollution in drug companies' supply chains is one of its causes.

Indian drug companies try to gut antibiotic pollution controls

India’s powerful pharmaceutical industry is attempting to weaken a ground-breaking law proposed to tackle pollution linked to the production of antibiotics, leaked documents obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveal.

Farmers on the frontline of Poland's fracking rush

Chris Faulkner is an oil man. From Dallas, Texas. And his company, Breitling Oil and Gas, is a major player in the burgeoning shale gas sector. Faulkner is in London to give a presentation on whether Europe is the next shale gas hotspot, and to ask whether – if so – it has the necessary infrastructure to cope with a US style 'dash for gas'.