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By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Russia announced on Monday (November 20th) it was banning all pork and beef imports from Brazil starting December 1st. According to the Russian agro-sanitary agency Rosselkhoznadzor a banned growth hormone...

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Trying to calm fears that tainted meat may have been exported abroad, Brazil’s President Michel Temer met with a group of 33 ambassadors from major meat importing countries that the...

Opinion, by Alfonso Stefanini RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Dorothy Stang, the 73-year-old American killed in the Amazon Basin in 2005, is remembered by a famous picture where she wore a shirt saying "the death of the forest is the...