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Answered above in another comment, AFIK the Amazon is being torn down mostly for cattle feed crops, soy and others. A lot of the soy is exported all over the w
by vfc1 7y ago
Answered above in another comment, AFIK the Amazon is being torn down mostly for cattle feed crops, soy and others.
A lot of the soy is exported all over the world, to china due to the trade wars with the US, to western countries which need cattle feed but don't have the land to produce those crops.
Developing nations have limited meat consumption still, the biggest consumers of meat is the west in general. The cattle feed needs to come from somewhere, a lot of it comes from the Amazon.
- endorphone 7y agoThat doesn't answer anything. Brazil's meat and soy exports are overwhelmingly to destinations that are not the West. China did indeed shift a lot of consumption from Canada and the US towards Brazil. That's not Canada and the US' fault, and is 100% the actions and malice of China in trying to be punitive.
- vfc1 7y agoOne thing's for sure, the forest is being taken down to produce cattle feed, with the final goal to produce cheap meat. The biggest consumers are the West and China, so following the money I think those are the main responsible because it's their demand for the final product that is ultimately the economic reason behind the deforestation. So indeed I underestimated the role of China in this process, has I thought historically the biggest consumers of meat have been the west. The trade wars with China have recently increased the demand for brasilian soy, adding fuel to the fire so to speak.