How Americans’ love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest

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The pattern is clear: First, the forest is razed. Then the cattle are moved in. If the Amazon is to die, it will be beef that kills it. This is how Americans' love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest.

is projected to continue to rise over the next decade. The United States is the largest market: It is home to 4 percent of the world’s population but eats about“The environmentalists,” he said. “I have so many environmental problems. So many. It’s not easy.”for environmental infractions. At the time of his sales to JBS, he stood accused of knocking down at least 5.

JBS cut ties with Gouveia’s Amazonian ranches after it was informed of The Post’s findings — a decision Gouveia bitterly mourned. “You hurt me with this report,” he said. “I talked to you with an open heart.”during the coronavirus pandemic, now accounts for 8 percent of Brazil’s gross domestic product. The lifting of the U.S. moratorium on raw Brazilian beef two years ago has opened up a massive new market. And President Jair Bolsonaro is in power.

“The federal government doesn’t make this data available to third parties,” Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry told The Postconfidential information. “It’s essential for the maintenance of the animal health system. Therefore, there is no reason for it to be released for demands that don’t involve the health of animals.”

 

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carolinebnell This is some good scare tactics. I will never forsake my love of beef. I will never consider the person who writes something like, 'Americans' love of beef is helping to destroy the Amazon rainforest to be anything but cracked. Pitch your woo, man. Pitch it hard. Plant more trees

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instead of blaming beef eaters on the land shortages you could blame the 90% of the population with poor diets they continually eat saturated fat and carbohydrates and experience frequent urination

the global food shortage aka just carbohydrate up!!!

No corporate greed is destroying the rainforest.

Why does everyone think that it's there thing to put their nose in wet about the rainforest.? The thing is a fact but still not ours to attack. Their country. Their forest. Even if it's wrong.

It's not the American love of beef, but the liberal-globalist commitment to globalization, capital mobility, open borders and corporate laissez faire. Let's localize - seriously localize. But that means making your piece with those conservatives who want this (including ranchers)

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Who cares

No no no! Then Billy Gates buys it and stops it being put to good use like feeding the world!

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Hmmm...reminds me of Revelations 3:9 or when Jews pressured Pagan Roman Emperor Pontius Pilate when calling Jesus Christ a false Messiah as he washed his hands when Jews pressured him to send Jesus to the cross during Tiberius' reign as Pagan Roman Emperor.

The Separation of Church & State was also to prevent government from forming a centralized church and to prevent government from meddling into 'ANY' religion. I guess people forget that too.

Roger Williams' Separation of Church & State was to basically grant 'Religious Freedom' in order to prevent a person from becoming persecuted for their religious freedom to speak their beliefs.

Funny how people forget that Pilgrims had a quest for 'Religious Freedom' also shared by our U.S. Founding Fathers.

Pilgrims were mostly 'fined' while King James I controlled The Church of England. Of course, Queen Mary The First began to merge her father's Church of England into The Roman Catholic Church. She was Catholic. Catherine of Aragon was a strict Catholic.

Salmon P. Chase became upset over the accusations made against Simon Wolf by U.S. Colonel Lafayette C. Baker from The U.S. War Department during The Civil War. Simon was a spokesman for B'nai B'rith founded in October of 1843 and a member of The Congregation of Hebrews.

Also, look for links between August Belmont and Salmon P. Chase who signed The National Banking Act of 1863 as well as Alexander Hamilton's First National Bank.

Mayer Amschel Rothschild's son, Nathaniel Rothschild, connived his way into winning the bid on The Reparations of France during The Battle of Waterloo in 1815 who funded The British while his brother, James Rothschild, funded Napoleon's side of that war who had banks in France.

Capt. William Morgan was a Captain in the War of 1812 when The British burned down The White House before The Battle of Waterloo in Belgium in 1815, The Last Battle between France and Great Britain.

You might want to look deeper into Alexander Hamilton's duel as well as President John Quincy Adam's Anti Mason Party founded in the early 1800s due to Capt. William Morgan's murder at Lake Ontario by Freemasons written on his tombstone and his book, Illustrations of Freemasonry

Roger Williams: Separation of Church & State (Founders dot Archives dot Gov, U.S. Library of Congress, U.S. Bill of Rights Institute, U.S. First Amendment Center, Smithsonian).

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I still ain't eating bugs

If the Bureau of Land Management would stop making it difficult to raise cattle here, we wouldn't need Brazil.

how many trees fell to make the boxes for Amazon?

I buy my grass-fed beef from a local rancher right here in the States! Beef is nutritious and a great source of protein. I can’t fathom why the push to get rid of beef? Hmmm…maybe the money in chemically derived meat substitute products beef

Europeans stop buy wood from Amazônia Brazilian dont have money to buy it

Yeah right, all of those migrant invaders are going to be eating McDonalds cheeseburgers and streaming movies.

paulg 🇺🇸 The US is also free to plant more trees. You can't control Brazil but you can control your territory.

What a joke. That area was all grass lands 10000 years ago. Also stop with the climate propaganda.

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how about we start feeding off our own local USA beef and cut the imports?

The world should pay Brazil for every acre of forested land.

paulg Only way to sustain is to decentralize agriculture! Support smallholder farmer initiatives. They are the key to global food security n keeping climate change in check.

We import beef from Brazil? Why? I can get a cow form a local farmer? Our butcher only buys local beef. You sure it’s not our obsession for homes? Because 80% of building supplies come from South America. Look into souther Arkansa pine forests down there where the Amazon was

This is America’s fault

We’re a net exporter of beef ? Wtf ?

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Furniture made from tropical wood is the problem. Cattle replenish the soil after illegal logging.

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only 8% of meat in the US is from another country so enjoy your steak without feeling too much guilt

We're rating this statement has 'utter bullshit'. Except the part where American love beef. Any sound person loves beef. Only commies don't love beef. The Amazon doesn't 'die'. Amazon can't die. It's too big to fail.

Cattle ranching, responsible for the great majority of deforestation in the Amazon, is pushing the forest to the edge of what scientists warn could be an irreversible dieback that claims much of the biome. Despite reform attempts, destruction continues.

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