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Can't read this? Click here E-bulletin April 2006 www.greenpeace.org.uk WE'RE TRASHIN' ITDozens of seven-foot chickens invaded McDonald's outlets across the UK this morning, exposing the link between

the fast food chain and the destruction of the Amazon. After a year-long, global investigation that used satellite imagery, aerial surveillance and on-the-ground undercover monitoring, today we revealed how soya from the Amazon rainforest is fed to the chickens that end up on sale as European Chicken McNuggets. The Amazon is home to millions of plants, animals and people including indigenous tribes, and it plays a vital role in keeping the world's climate stable. Each year thousands of square miles of rainforest are illegally cleared to make way for soya plantations. The soya industry in Brazil is also involved in slavery and the illegal invasion of indigenous peoples' lands. Much of the soya produced in the Amazon

is used to feed animals in Europe which, in turn, end up in fast food chains like McDonald's. "McDonald’s is fuelling a trade that's trashing the Amazon," said Greenpeace forest campaigner Pat Venditti. "Rainforest is being illegally cleared to make way for soya farms to feed animals in Europe. Our investigation clearly links that deforestation to McDonald's. Every time you buy a Chicken McNugget you could be taking a bite out of the Amazon." Check out our animation: the chain of destruction »Read the full story » Take ActionTell McDonald's to take Amazon rainforest off the menu » TERROR TARGETS ON WHEELS You might not live near a nuclear reactor, but you may be close to a nuclear transport route without even knowing it. Every week trains carrying highly

radioactive nuclear waste travel on the UK's outdated public rail network - through more than 20 major cities and towns - often during peak hours. And, according to a new report, they are extremely vulnerable to accident and terrorist attack. Trains carry intensely radioactive waste on timetabled routes, with no apparent extra security. The flasks they carry could easily be punctured by basic weaponry. If a train was attacked in a London tunnel, over 8,000 people could ultimately die of cancer and 350,000 people might have to take shelter or be evacuated. But instead of protecting the public and stopping the nuclear transports, the government wants to build 10 new nuclear plants, quadrupling the amount of the most

highly radioactive wastes in the UK - and offering the terrorists new targets on wheels. Read the full story » The scene of a nuclear transport accident in France, 1997. Take ActionWrite to your MP to say yes to renewables and efficiency and no to nukes » WINNING ON THE HIGH SEAS It's been all go on the high seas; in the same week that seafood suppliers Gorton's, Sealord and Nissui withdrew their support for Japanese whaling (thank you, cyberactivists!), our Ocean Defenders made their first arrest of a pirate fishing vessel. It was first light in the Atlantic, 60 miles off the west coast of Guinea. A Greenpeace chopper flying over a group of fishing vessels spotted one - the Lian Run No 14 - that wasn't authorised to fish in Guinean waters. The world watched as a team of Ocean Defenders, Guinean Navy officials, fisheries inspectors and the Environmental Justice Foundation arrested the Chinese trawler for pirate fishing. The illegal catch was bound for Las Palmas, the fish laundering capital of the world. From there it was headed to the consumer markets of Europe,

giving us our first confirmed link between pirate fishing in Guinea and Europe. Read the full story » Esperanza crew members observe a pirate trawler steaming away from the protected zone. Take ActionTune in for regular news from the high seas » NO MORE CHERNOBYLS It's 20 years since Chernobyl

became the site of the world's most infamous nuclear accident, which released 100 times more radiation than the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The disaster may have receded into memory for some of us, but millions of people in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine are still living lives blighted by radiation, misplacement, disease and trauma. The award-winning photographer Robert Knoth has documented some of these lives in a powerful exhibition called Fallout: The human cost of nuclear catastrophe. This Greenpeace / Panos Pictures exhibition offers a poignant reminder

of the risks of nuclear technology - and the deadly consequences when things go wrong - at a time when nuclear power is firmly back on the UK's political agenda. Fallout will be showing at the Oxo Gallery of the Oxo Tower on London’s South Bank between 18 April and 14 May (11am-6pm). Admission is free. Read the full story » Aksuatsky Rayon, 6, stopped growing at the age of three. Her parents have no money to take care of her; they have taken her out of school and are considering putting her in an orphanage. Take

ActionWrite to your MP to say yes to renewables and no to nuclear power » Peter H

 

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