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Brazil convicts Volkswagen for enslaving laborers in the Amazon 40 years ago (english.elpais.com)

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago

That is how the German multinational ended up as the main shareholder of a ranch in Santana de Araguaia in Pará, a cattle operation slightly larger than New York City. To create pasture, the forest had to be cleared — and that required labor.

Kinda fucked how speciesist the narrative of this article is.

They didn't even condemn the majority of the slaves in this operation, who were murdered and whoose dead bodies were cut up and sold to be eaten