Yes, #PrayfortheAmazon and all, but let’s remember two things if you live in the USA:
-Brazil is a sovereign nation and your suggestions of a coup d'état aren’t helpful. Quit being globalists and let the people of Brazil speak for themselves.
-Boycotting beef etc in the USA does literally nothing for the cattle ranching industry in Brazil. We don’t import meat from Brazil, we export to them, if anything.
But if you live in the USA you could try and ask for international pressure to be put on Brazil, for christ’s sake. It’s not a Brazilian issue, it’s a global issue.
brazilian person here just to remind you that a lot of those guys who are burning the forest to get more land are also soy farmers, so it’s not just a meat issue, it’s about brazilian food industry as a whole.
The majority of soy is used as feed for livestock, so although yes it’s not just a meat issue, it is largely one
The majority of soy by weight is used as animal feed. This primarily (pretty much only) consists of human-inedible stalks and husks. Meanwhile 88% of soy oil is used in human food (the rest is used instead of petroleum oil). Considering soy is an oilseed, it’s unlikely that the production of soy would be lowered if we stopped feeding the by-products to animals and that they would instead find another buyer for said by-products (or just dump them/burn them).
This piece was inspired when I heard about the terrible fires raging throughout the Amazon rainforest. I thought today would be a good day to post it here in honor of the #climatestrike. Let’s save our planet!
It is already threatened by huge deforestation, to the point it lost 20% of its wildth in less than 30 years.
It’s been burning for around two weeks and almost no word has been uttered about it. I, sincerely, have come to find out about it just now. I’m shooketh ™️ because we’re really burning away this planet.
The Amazon Rainforest holds 20% of global waters, it’s an area of incredible value in termns of biodiversity and, nevermind, it’s a crucial climate regulator. Spread awareness, demand help.
The research, supported by the National Geographic Society and published today in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, estimates that atmospheric warming from all of these sources combined now appears to swamp the forest’s natural cooling effect.
The effect can still be combated and reversed through the halting of deforestation as well as rebuilding the destroyed ecosystems.
