(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Sonia Elk I Thomon Reuter Foundation
LONDON,: Britih conumer wapping red meat for chicken a part of a greener lifetyle may be unwittingly contributing to the razing of rainforet, Greenpeace aid on Tueday.
With ale of chicken riing in Britain, the environmental preure group warned of the hidden climate impact of raiing the bird, whoe feed i mainly grown in South America.
That, ay Greenpeace, mean riing conumption could further endanger the rainforet, which are already hrinking by million of hectare each year.
"I really don't think conumer are aware of thi link to the extent they hould be," aid Chiara Vitali, the lead author of the report.
"The meage that ha been coming acro o far i that we need to be cutting red meat o it' OK to witch to omething like chicken and unfortunately that i not the cae," he added, urging conumer intead to eat more plant-baed food. Over the pat 20 year demand for beef, lamb and pork ha fallen harply in Britain, according to Greenpeace analyi of official houehold purchae data, but that ha been offet by a 20% increae in conumption of chicken.
A urvey by Leatherhead Food Reearch publihed in September found conumer are buying le red meat due to concern over health and the impact on the climate.
But Greenpeace aid demand for the oybean that are ued to make poultry feed wa helping to drive detruction of South American foret that act a carbon ink.
A urvey of 23 leading Britih upermarket, fat-food retaurant and food companie found none were tracking whether oy ued for animal feed in their upply chain wa linked to deforetation, it aid.
About 68% of Britain' oy import come from South America, according to data from a government-led initiative to encourage utainable oy. About 90% of the oy the European Union import i ued to feed livetock.
Britih hop were working to combat deforetation and increae the ue of certified utainable oy in upply chain, aid the Britih Retail Conortium in repone to the report.
UKHopitality, the indutry group that repreent retaurant and cafe, wa not available for comment.
Global Canopy, an environmental group that work with companie to halt deforetation, ha aid the lo of tropical foret create an etimated 8% of all greenhoue ga emiion.
Sarah Rogeron, a reearcher at Global Canopy' Foret 500 initiative to rate leading firm on their action on deforetation, aid the Greenpeace report undercored the failure of many buinee to be tranparent about ourcing.
"Quite a lot of companie have made commitment, but our evidence ugget that very few are actually providing enough tranparency about what they are doing," he told the Thomon Reuter Foundation.
"The picture i even wore for indirect oy in animal feed, manufacturer and retailer often have commitment or report only on the oy that end up directly in their product, o they are not looking at the deforetation rik in the animal feed."
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