The Amazon is burning because the world eats so much meat

cnn ^

[Java4Jay]

The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. While this may be business as usual for Brazil's beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror.

[dhs12345]

And to the poor person in some sh!thole country — screw you and go eats some bugs and stop complaining about having to live in squalor. You marginal lifestyle is the ideal according to the Leftists pushing global warming.

And to the people living in first world countries — we need to give up our lifestyles and our wealth and live exactly like people the sh!thole countries. Oh, except that the elites will be exempted.

[VanDeKoik]

“While this may be business as usual for Brazil’s beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror.”

Well? Cut them a check for the land.

Is that hard?

[dhs12345]

Agreed. The vegan diet is killing people! We cut our carb intake and have lost a lot of weight. Best of all, we have kept the weight off. My blood chemistry is much better now, too and my immune system is a lot better.

[BenLurkin]

“The rest of the world looks on in horror.”

Nonsense

[Beagle8U]

40 acres of veggies will feed a heck of a lot more people than 40 acres of beef.

[lepton]

The Amazon is burning because of Brazil’s ethanol laws, and now that they’ve more recently limited the sugar-cane plantations to certain areas, the increasing number of plantations are shoving everything else out - moving cattle ranches from where they have been for decades to new locations.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, bullshillings. Most of the earth's non-permafrost land area has very low pop. density, and the 22% of the (Northern Hemisphere) land that is in permafrost is almost totally unpopulated.

The "problem" of people eating more beef, is that more and more people are so far advanced in terms of relative wealth, food security and choice, that they now have the freedom to eat cow-meat regularly, a luxury once reserved for the rich.

That #1 hallmark of the earth's malnourished masses is presently obesity.

Let's make more CO₂ melt the permafrost, pipe out the methane for a cheap fuel source, do forest-planting, grazing and agriculture on the thawed land, and THEN we can talk about the perils of overpopulation.

Which ain't gonna happen, since almost all the high-consuming beefeater countries are now birthing generations way below replacement.

Historically, when people can care for their own, the population takes care of itself.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle.***

So what is the difference between burning the forest off for cattle or burning it off to plant soybeans to make imitation meat!

[cgbg]

I thought the article was about Amazon burning books. :-(

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well said.

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[Claud]

40 acres of veggies? I think you mean grains or nuts or something like that.

[zlala]

Even though not directly stated by CNN, the implication is the US should care more & certainly do more. IE: $$$$$$.
Why isn’t there an expectation that S America should care more. Should educate their own people & spend the $$$. Why shouldn’t the rest of the world step it up? What the US did in the 20th century regarding land management, clean air & clean water is amazing. All the while our population was growing. Balance is the key, but the US shouldn’t be the only country to have it. And I feel like the biggest burden of responsibility & balance falls on the shoulders of conservatives because we UNDERSTAND!

[mkleesma]

Is it just me, or did this story seem to just pop up out of nowhere?
A week ago, there hadn’t been a mention of the Brazilian Rain Forests for maybe 20 years. Today, it is the crisis du Jour, with every media outlet screaming about it like the fires just started yesterday.
Looks like everybody in the MSM got their 4:00 am talking points right on schedule.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***If, suddenly, overnight, every human being on Earth became a Vegetarian,***

This reminds me of a Si-Fi short story I read years ago. THE ULTIMATE CATALYST, in which a vegetarian anti-war world gets along well, except for one isolated tin-horn dictator deep in the Amazon, who has only vegetables to eat, but wants MEAT!

So his captive scientist makes some called GREENBEEFOS!

But there is a price to pay....

[Red Badger]

It’s PEOPLE!!!!!!!???????........

[PilotDave]

Forest fires have been burning unchecked on earth for millions of years. Extinguishing them is a modern concept. Furthermore, as anyone who’s been around real jungles knows, the jungle always wins. Holding the foliage back takes constant maintenance.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Anyone remember the hoopla about building the TRANS-AMAZON Highway about 50 years ago? A road clear across from the Atlantic to the Pacific, through the Amazon.

So, where is that nice paved road? returned to mud and forest. The jungle re-claimed her own.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Worse.

[Dr. Sivana]

You know I don’t think I’ve ever had a Mars Bar :O

Mars bars are rarely available stateside these days. I last saw one in an English style fish 'n' chips in Phoenix (but bought some toffee and a Coffee Crisp instead).

The closest thing to a Mars bar you can easily get is "Snickers with Almonds".

Here in the U.S., Mars is like Philip Morris cigarettes. The parent name survives even as the brand is unavailable. (though I guess now Philip Morris is Altria or some such.)

[FreeReign]

The earth is 5% greener than it was 20 years ago.