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On the recordMay 7, 2012
We know that slash and burn techniques are destroying the Amazon, and now many are saying we should also burn through international forests to make guitars for Slash.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey criticizes the destruction of forests for guitar production.

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