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Importing food damages domestic environment, study finds

Trees falling as fragile forests become cropland is a visual…

16 May 2018 | By

Trees falling as fragile forests become cropland is a visual shorthand for the environmental costs exporting countries pay to meet lucrative global demands for food. But a new study reveals another counter-intuitive possibility: importing food also damages homeland ecology.