Beef eating consumers are helping drive Amazon deforestation

By Adam Vaughan

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BRAZIL’s president Jair Bolsonaro has been known as “Captain Chainsaw” for his rhetoric about the agree with to bellow assets within the Amazon. Many ogle this because the impetus for the rocketing deforestation and ensuing fires in the rainforest this year.

However there’s one other aspect to the checklist. The woodland is regularly burned to note manner for cattle ranches, and masses of the meat they invent is bought in diversified worldwide locations – Brazil is the enviornment’s greatest exporter of pork. That begs the …