Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. But as major American fast food brands, like KFC, expand into so-called “frontier markets,” taxpayer-funded development banks have made their global expansion possible by underwriting the factory farms that supply them with chicken, a DeSmog investigation has found.  In all, the investigation identified five factory-scale poultry companies in, Read More