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Your steak, burgers, and leather goods are costing the Amazon its rainforests
The Western demand for beef and leather is dictating the current trend in overranching in the Amazon forests of Brazil, thus causing persistent deforestation. So says a three-year survey conducted by Greenpeace. Cattle seems to produce a lot of lucrative products and by-products: meat for fresh and canned food, leather hide for fashion, fat for toothpaste, [...]
Filed in: Environment, Green News
