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Most of Brazillian beef came from natural grassland area, "Serrado" Also Pantanal (a kind of swampland of sorts) create some awesome natural pastures, although
by speeder 5y ago
Most of Brazillian beef came from natural grassland area, "Serrado"
Also Pantanal (a kind of swampland of sorts) create some awesome natural pastures, although raising cattle there is harder because of the floods.
Amazon Rainforest destruction has much to do with stupidity (the land there is sand actually, destroying the forest to plant ANYTHING there, even soybeans, is stupid idea), logging, illegal land grabbing, and issues related to certain US companies (Cargill in particular is a big offender).
Also there a lot of conflict is going on there, including political, that made the destruction faster, including destruction being sped up in name of conservation, for example worldwide media was all happy when a particular logger got arrested, only for the destruction to speed up after his arrest, because the people that kept calling the police on him were actually trying to use the police to push him out so they could squat the land, and indeed they did so, as soon he was kicked out, illegal loggers and miners moved in, and fortified, now THOSE people can't be kicked out because they are heavily armed and the police fears the political fallout of that. Meanwhile the area they squatted had logging sped-up a lot, and trees that previously were being preserved as seed stock got cut down, ruining the management work being done there.
- kickout 5y agoExcellent comment.
- maccard 5y agoExcept it's not true - all sources say that the primary reason for deforestation in brazil is cattle grazing. Wikipedia [0] has numerous sources that say the exact opposite of what OP has said. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_rainforest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...
- ramblenode 5y agoAccording to this paper 70-80% of Brazil's deforestation begins as pasture creation: http://www7.nau.edu/mpcer/direnet/publications/publications_n/files/nepstad_interactions.pdf http://www7.nau.edu/mpcer/direnet/publications/publications_...
- Jensson 5y agoIt can both be true that deforestation isn't important to Brazils meat industry but that people mostly burn down forests to create meat. Just means that we could stop the deforestation without much consequences, which is a good thing.
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- speeder 5y agoYou are correct. Most of the deforestation issue could be fixed with better law enforcement, mind you not just "harsher" enforcement, part of the problem is some previous governments went overboard with it, bothering people that weren't doing anything illegal. Sadly the current government fixed it by doing the opposite (enforcing too little).