By Megan Thompson / Source: Ecorazzi

The fast food giant McDonald’s regularly gets negative press as an ever-increasing number of Americans battle with obesity, heart disease and poor nutrition. Today, however, the mega corporation is in the news for a positive reason; a new study has shown that policy changes made by McDonald’s in 2006 have actually helped slow the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

In the early 2000’s, McDonald’s and other major fast food companies were serving chickens raised, in part, on soy that was grown in the Amazon. In 2006, after Greenpeace published a report exposing the vast environmental damage soy farming was causing, McDonald’s agree to stop serving chicken raised on soy from newly cleared land. This landmark decision by the corporation caused many major soy traders to reconsider their suppliers and switch to more environmentally sound sources.

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