Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second largest in the world after Nestlé SA.The Philip Morris Company (now known as Altria Group), acquired Kraft for $12.9 billion in 1988, eventually merging it with another food subsidiary, General Foods, which it had acquired in 1985. In 2000, Philip Morris acquired Nabisco and merged it with Kraft. Altria sold 280 million Kraft shares via an initial public offering in 2001, retaining an 88.1% stake. On January 31, 2007, after months of speculation, the company announced that its 88.1% stake would be spun off to Altria shareholders at the end of March 2007. Kraft is now an independent publicly held company.Kraft is headquartered in Northfield, Illinois, USA, a Chicago suburb. Kraft Foods markets many popular brands in more than 155 countries.Kraft Foods is named after James L. Kraft, who founded the original wholesale cheese business in 1903.

Not many of us link our soy chai latte or our occasional fast food splurge with Amazon deforestation. However, travel up the Amazon river and you’ll be greeted not by endless lush forest, but by soy farms and cattle ranches.We’re all familiar with the statistic: every minute, an area of forest the size of five football fields is clear-cut...

CRAZY ARABS: The preferred food for millions of chickens around the world is green soy beans. It is mainly imported from Brazil by ships like this one, which release tons of carbon dioxide, causing the ice at the poles to melt, and the sea level rises, and as a result, the water floods some of these beautiful islands

HAVANA | Brazil’s president met Tuesday with ailing Fidel Castro, a surprise ending to a visit in which he offered Cuba credits for food and infrastructure. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also signed a deal for Brazil to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

A really super informative site about an American living in Brazil. Lots of information about local ingredients, and other things Brazilian. There is a funny story about Halloween. For anybody interested in Brazilian food and culture it is toally worth the visit.

A teenage girl was locked up on theft charges in an Amazon jail for weeks with 21 men who she said would only let her eat in return for sex, according to authorities, setting off a national scandal over the treatment of women by Brazil’s justice system...