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> This is also one of the reasons why I'm a vegetarian, as much deforestation is caused by burning forests for raising livestock. Do you have any evidence that

• eropple 10y ago
  It's pretty well-documented that ranchers literally burn down rainforests in Brazil to make room for livestock. http://globalforestatlas.yale.edu/amazon/land-use/cattle-ranching http://globalforestatlas.yale.edu/amazon/land-use/cattle-ran...
• adrianN 10y ago
  "The cattle sector of the Brazilian Amazon, incentivized by the international beef and leather trades,[2] has been responsible for about 80% of all deforestation in the region,[3] or about 14% of the world's total annual deforestation, making it the world's largest single driver of deforestation.[4] By 1995, 70% of formerly forested land in the Amazon, and 91% of land deforested since 1970, had been converted to cattle ranching.[5][6] Much of the remaining deforestation within the Amazon has resulted from farmers clearing land for small-scale subsistence agriculture[7] or mechanized cropland producing soy, palm, and other crops.[8]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_rainforest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...