Your browser does not support this video. Permalink: https://photo.greenpeace.org/archive/Soy-in-the-Name-of-Progress---Long-English-Version-27MZIFVBCVRO.htmlConceptually similarSoy in the Name of Progress - Short Dutch VersionGP0STOGGSCompleted★★★★Amazon Soya Moratorium Renewed in Brazil - Web Video (English)GP0STPUDACompleted★★★★Amazon Soya Moratorium Renewed in Brazil - Web Video (International)GP0STPUDBCompleted★★★★Forest Crime Parachute Action in BrazilGP03F1RCompleted★★★★Cargill Soya ClipreelGP0488GCompleted★★★★Amazon BR-163 Highway - English VersionGP04QOECompleted★★★★Amazon BR-163 Highway - International VersionGP04QOGCompleted★★★★Amazon BR-163 Highway - B-ROLLGP04QOFCompleted★★★★Amazon Soya Moratorium ClipreelGP0STO7DDCompleted★★★★★★★View AllGP04OF0Soy in the Name of Progress - Long English VersionA new "soy rush" has been kick started and large scale farm producers from all over Brazil are flocking to the Amazon forest in the hope of striking it rich with this golden crop. Yet all this comes at a price. Communities - most often those found in the forest - are being violently expelled from their lands in the wake of this uncontrolled scramble to plant soy. For Brazil, its all in the name of progress. However, to ask those who have been chased from their lands and have seen first-hand the ecological wrath which has followed in the wake of soy in the region of Santarem, this new cash crop in the Amazon has brought nothing but destruction and misery.Locations:Amazon-Brazil-South AmericaDate:1 Jan, 2005Credit:© GreenpeaceDuration:39m13sAudio format:Final MixProduction Type :DOCUMENTARYKeywords:Actions and protests-Agriculture-Animals-Bunge-Cargill-Climbing actions-Death-Deforestation-Demonstrations-Destruction-European Union (EU)-Farming practices-Farms-Fields-Food-Forest fires-Forests (campaign title)-Forests (topography)-Greenpeace activists-Greenpeace campaigners-Indigenous People-KWCI (GPI)-Occupation actions-Soya beansShoot:Soy in the Name of ProgressA new "soy rush" has been kick started and large scale farm producers from all over Brazil are flocking to the Amazon forest in the hope of striking it rich with this golden crop. Yet all this comes at a price. Communities - most often those found in the forest - are being violently expelled from their lands in the wake of this uncontrolled scramble to plant soy. For Brazil, its all in the name of progress. However, to ask those who have been chased from their lands and have seen first-hand the ecological wrath which has followed in the wake of soy in the region of Santarem, this new cash crop in the Amazon has brought nothing but destruction and misery.
