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> Down here in Brazil you basically give the animals it's vaccines and let them graze for a few years Let me fix this for you: > Down here in Brazil you basic

by dqpb 4y ago

> Down here in Brazil you basically give the animals it's vaccines and let them graze for a few years Let me fix this for you: > Down here in Brazil you basically destroy a million square kilometers of old growth rainforest, give the animals it's vaccines, and let them graze for a few years

kikokikokiko 4y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about. Brazil is a continental country, I'm sure you know about it. My family and I come from the southern part, it's basically pampa downn here, a green savana. That's why Argentina, Uruguai and south Brazil are the best places to raise cattle in the world, it's just grass from horizon to horizon. The average HN user is so oblivious to anything other than this idiotic 1st world mainstream view it shocks me. The propaganda about the Amazon destruction is hilarious coming from a brazilian native point of view.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  > why Argentina, Uruguai and south Brazil are the best places to raise cattle in the world, it's just grass from horizon to horizon Uruguay’s environment is massively altered by wide-scale cattle raising [1]. The savannahs are being destroyed, deforestation lowering water tables and effluence and run-off contaminating what groundwater remains. They’re great places to rear cattle. That doesn’t mean they have no environmental impact. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Uruguay https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Urug...
- jxramos 4y ago
  yah, I always had the impression that Brazil was predominantly rain forest. I'm curious what percentage of the country's land mass is deep/tall Amazon rain forest. If we came up with some cheap threshold like at least 10 trees in 100 square meters each at least 10m tall or something, what percentage of Brazil's land mass would satisfy that constraint? I heard of the pampas in Argentina before I think through literature from Jorge Luis Borges. I never knew that Brazil intersected with that region down at the southern tip https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampa https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampa.
  - kikokikokiko 4y ago
    The Amazon is only a thing at the upper third of the country, and rain forest, probably just the western side. I would guess 30% of the land area of Brazil. 100% of the south and north east, 90% costal areas, and 75% of the midwest are NOT rain forests. People don't even seem to know outside of Brazil that the north eastern part is basically a huge savana, with some areas being more like a desert than a savana even.

by dqpb 4y ago

kikokikokiko 4y ago

You have no idea what you are talking about. Brazil is a continental country, I'm sure you know about it. My family and I come from the southern part, it's basically pampa downn here, a green savana. That's why Argentina, Uruguai and south Brazil are the best places to raise cattle in the world, it's just grass from horizon to horizon. The average HN user is so oblivious to anything other than this idiotic 1st world mainstream view it shocks me. The propaganda about the Amazon destruction is hilarious coming from a brazilian native point of view.

JumpCrisscross 4y ago
> why Argentina, Uruguai and south Brazil are the best places to raise cattle in the world, it's just grass from horizon to horizon Uruguay’s environment is massively altered by wide-scale cattle raising [1]. The savannahs are being destroyed, deforestation lowering water tables and effluence and run-off contaminating what groundwater remains. They’re great places to rear cattle. That doesn’t mean they have no environmental impact. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Uruguay https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Urug...
jxramos 4y ago
yah, I always had the impression that Brazil was predominantly rain forest. I'm curious what percentage of the country's land mass is deep/tall Amazon rain forest. If we came up with some cheap threshold like at least 10 trees in 100 square meters each at least 10m tall or something, what percentage of Brazil's land mass would satisfy that constraint? I heard of the pampas in Argentina before I think through literature from Jorge Luis Borges. I never knew that Brazil intersected with that region down at the southern tip https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampa https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampa.
- kikokikokiko 4y ago
  The Amazon is only a thing at the upper third of the country, and rain forest, probably just the western side. I would guess 30% of the land area of Brazil. 100% of the south and north east, 90% costal areas, and 75% of the midwest are NOT rain forests. People don't even seem to know outside of Brazil that the north eastern part is basically a huge savana, with some areas being more like a desert than a savana even.