http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/114/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/58 <p><a href="http://www.thenewanatolian.com/today.php">The New Anatolian</a>, the Turkish English-language daily, carries a <a href="http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-19240.html">story</a> today about agribusiness giant Cargill. Since the 1990s, Cargill has been operating in the Orghazi district illegally. Its ties with the government have helped it to win, from a court in Bursa, a ruling that would give them an amnesty and a mild fine for unpermitted activity. Cargill's not out of the woods yet - President Sezer might still veto the amnesty. </p> <p>But Cargill's got a solid history of managing the law, adopting a tactic of build-first-worry-about-the-legality-later. In Brazil, it has built an entire, and entirely <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/soya-blazes-through-the-amazon">illegal, port complex</a> while waiting for appropriate permits to be issued, and then <a href="http://www.cargill.com/news/issues/issues_greenpeacereport.pdf">howled</a> when <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/usa/press/reports/eating-up-the-amazon.pdf">Greenpeace</a> pointed this out to the media. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/58"> ... read more &raquo;</a></span></p> http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/58#comment 40.501129 29.310680 Ch. 7. Soy Industry, Brazil, MST agribusiness Cargill Turkey Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:51:20 -0700 Raj 58 at http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal