5名保護世界雨林免於破壞的環保團體成員，10日在芝加哥期貨交易所懸掛50英尺長的旗幟之後遭到逮捕。
在旗幟上，「雨林行動網路」(RAN)指出，農業企業巨人Bunge和Cargill，Archer Daniels Midland(ADM)，在南美洲，東南亞和太平洋地區「破壞熱帶雨林並踐踏人權」。
ADM，Bunge和Cargill在期貨交易所買賣穀物商品期貨，包括大豆和棕梠油，而這些作物都是種植在把雨林清除的土地上。
「雨林行動網路」指出，這些農產品的需求增加，造成砍伐森林的熱潮，特別在印尼和巴西。因為有這世界兩大雨林，這兩國變成世界第3和第4大的溫室氣體排放國，緊接在中國和美國之後。
Five members of an environmental group protesting destruction of the world's rainforests were arrested Wednesday after draping a 50 foot long banner across the front of the Chicago Board of Trade building on the Loop.
On their banner, the Rainforest Action Network singled out agribusiness giants Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Cargill for "destroying tropical rainforests and trampling human rights" in South America, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Archer Daniels Midland, ADM, Bunge and Cargill buy and sell commodity crops at the Board of Trade, including soybeans, which, along with oil palms, are planted on newly cleared rainforest land.
Growing demand for these crops has caused a spike in deforestation, RAN says, particularly in Indonesia and Brazil. With the world's two largest rainforests, these countries have become the world's third and fourth largest greenhouse gas emitters after China and the United States.
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