Food giants accused of links to illegal Amazon deforestation | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian

Three of the world’s biggest food businesses have been accused of buying soya from a farmer linked to illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

Cargill, Bunge and Cofco sourced soya beans from the Chinese-owned Fiagril and the multinational Aliança Agrícola do Cerrado, both of which have allegedly been supplied by a farmer fined and sanctioned multiple times after destroying swathes of rainforest, according to a new investigation.

Soya beans are a key ingredient in poultry, pig and cattle feed, particularly for animals reared on intensive farms.

Source: Food giants accused of links to illegal Amazon deforestation | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian

Stench of death pervades rural India as Ganges swells with Covid victims | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Stigma and cost of wood leave families with no choice but to immerse their dead in river

There was a time before when the Ganges was “swollen with dead bodies”.

In 1918, when the great flu pandemic swept through India and killed an estimated 18 million people, the water of this river – upon which so many lives depended – was filled with the stench of death.

Source: Stench of death pervades rural India as Ganges swells with Covid victims | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Banks Fight $4 Billion Debt Relief Plan for Black Farmers – The New York Times (Me: hundreds of years of profit from slave labor, not enough for US banks, they want more…)

The Biden administration’s efforts to provide $4 billion in debt relief to minority farmers is encountering stiff resistance from banks, which are complaining that the government initiative to pay off the loans of borrowers who have faced decades of financial discrimination will cut into their profits and hurt investors.

The debt relief was approved as part of the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that Congress passed in March and was intended to make amends for the discrimination that Black and other nonwhite farmers have faced from lenders and the United States Department of Agriculture over the years. But no money has yet gone out the door.

Instead, the program has become mired in controversy and lawsuits. In April, white farmers who claim that they are victims of reverse discrimination sued the U.S.D.A. over the initiative.

These Twins Lived Together. In Covid, They Died Together. – The New York Times

Joefred and Ralfred Gregory moved through life as one.

They went to the same college. They studied the same thing. They wore matching clothes. They trimmed their beards the exact same way.

Identical twins, they were two handsome young men in northern India who above all else really loved each other. And when they both were struck by Covid-19 last month and hospitalized, it was like they shared one sick body.

Hours after Joefred died, Ralfred’s mother told him that his brother was still alive, to keep his spirits up.

But Ralfred sensed his brother was no more and said, from his hospital bed, “Mummy, you’re lying.”

The next day, on May 14, Ralfred died too.

ImageGregory Raymond Raphael and his wife, Soja Gregory, last week, grieving with their older son Nelfred Raphael Gregory at St Luke’s cemetery after the burial of their twin sons Joefred and Ralfred in Meerut, near New Delhi. 
Credit…via Gregory Raymond Raphael

An ‘Army of 16-Year-Olds’ Takes On the Democrats – The New York Times

Ms. Walsh, a 16-year-old high school junior, has many of the attributes of Generation Z: She likes to refer to people (like the president) as “bestie.” She occasionally gets called away from political events to babysit her little brother. She is slightly in the doghouse, parent-wise, for getting a C+ in precalculus.

She is also representative of an influential new force in Democratic politics, activists who cut their teeth on the presidential campaigns of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

The full strength of these activists — many of whom are not old enough to vote — did not become clear until last fall, when they were key to one of the year’s most surprising upsets, helping Senator Edward J. Markey defeat a primary challenge from Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, who had been heavily favored to win.

At Saks, Return to Office Means Mandatory Vaccines, Optional Manicures – The New York Times

After more than a year of remote work, Marc Metrick, the chief executive of Saks, has a message for the company’s 500 corporate employees in New York: Starting in September, the office will again become the company’s primary workplace.

“This was really great to be able to get work done at a time when it just wasn’t safe, but as it becomes safe, this isn’t the right option for us and we need to be much more office-based,” Mr. Metrick said of remote work during a recent Zoom interview. There will be new flexibility, he said, but “the default needs to be our office.”

Las máscaras cayeron… ya nos reconocemos

Google translation title and 1st paragraph: The masks fell … we already recognize each other

Santiago Galicia Rojo Serrallonga

When human beings overcome the chapter of the coronavirus -Covid-19- and it becomes yesterday, a painful memory, a sad vestige, a face removed from what cruel human beings and intoxicated by excessive ambition and the claims of global dominance are capable of doing against life and the balance of the planet, the world will present different features, something will have changed, by logic other rules will be established and we will be shipwrecked and pieces of history and destiny that we irresponsibly indulge in for years as it becomes easier for us stay in the apparent comfort of the seats, among the shapeless mass of the auditorium, insensitive and thoughtless, to design authentic existential projects and act head-on,transform ourselves into protagonists of the individual and collective changes that we require to transcend.

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

Cuando los seres humanos superemos el capítulo del coronavirus -Covid-19- y se convierta en ayer, en recuerdo doloroso, en vestigio triste, en rostro desmaquillado de lo que seres humanos crueles e intoxicados por la ambición desmedida y las pretensiones de dominio global son capaces de hacer en contra de la vida y el equilibrio del planeta, el mundo presentará rasgos diferentes, algo habrá cambiado, por lógica se establecerán otras reglas y seremos náufragos y pedazos de la historia y del destino que irresponsablemente consentimos durante años al resultarnos más fácil quedarnos en la aparente comodidad de las butacas, entre la masa informe del auditorio, insensibles e irreflexivos, que diseñar proyectos existenciales auténticos y actuar de frente, transformarnos en protagonistas de los cambios individuales y colectivos que requerimos para trascender.

Quizá tan doloroso episodio quedará registrado en la historia mundial como algo asqueroso y repugnante por parte…

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