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VIEW FROM BRAZIL

‘The garbage truck gives me my daily bread,’ a woman explains, speaking to camera in Fortaleza, one of the most important cities in the Brazilian northeast. ‘Every day, my children and I go through the garbage to eat. When the truck arrives, we have to be very swift to pick it up.’

Desperate scenes like this one that people used to get the bones for their dogs, but now they seek them for their own nourishment.

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