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The Amazon is burning because the world eats so much meat
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Posted on 08/23/2019 8:30:05 AM PDT by 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.

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1 posted on 08/23/2019 8:30:05 AM PDT by Java4Jay
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The Amazon is burning because there are too many people living on this planet. Earth is Easter Island on a large scale.


2 posted on 08/23/2019 8:30:17 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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If so, earth will take care of that as it always has.


3 posted on 08/23/2019 8:32:30 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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“The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle”

Yep, China is pulling away from the US for the meat needs and making huge ag deals for S. American beef.


4 posted on 08/23/2019 8:32:58 AM PDT by setter
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I care about the Amazon about as much as I care about the Antarctic and about as much as I care about Mars.

People love to virtue signal.

Whatever.


5 posted on 08/23/2019 8:33:36 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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The “Amazon is burning” because all forests burn for one reason or other. The shocking thing is that this spurs growth and they regrow. What a shock! Who knew??? cnn...The Always LIE Network for Nitwits.


6 posted on 08/23/2019 8:34:03 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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care about Mars. what Chu got against Mars? It's a great candy bar. not a snickers, but close
7 posted on 08/23/2019 8:36:06 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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So, for those wondering how they could help save the rainforest, known as "the planet's lungs" for producing about 20% of the world's oxygen, the answer may be simple. Eat less meat.

Aren't all the Dem candidates eating port at the Iowa Fair? Maybe they should eat some good Cuban Sugar cotton candy instead.

8 posted on 08/23/2019 8:37:00 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Every time an American eats a burger a jungle monkey catches on fire.


9 posted on 08/23/2019 8:37:22 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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Most millenials will read this as amazon.com is burning.


10 posted on 08/23/2019 8:37:45 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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You know I don’t think I’ve ever had a Mars Bar :O


11 posted on 08/23/2019 8:39:09 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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Support the UN, they are hell bent on culling the human species in mass.


12 posted on 08/23/2019 8:39:17 AM PDT by Openurmind
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In a Perfect World they would process trees of the Amazon into charcoal over which we could grill our beef.


13 posted on 08/23/2019 8:39:40 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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Well, I hope I still get my package.


14 posted on 08/23/2019 8:40:40 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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The Amazon is burning because there are too many people living on this planet. Earth is Easter Island on a large scale.

No, it's not. There are more trees in New England now than there were at the time of the War for Independence. There is less starvation now than there was 3 billion people ago. Malthus and Ricardo (and Ehrlich) have all been disproven.

Overpopulation is routinely used as an excuse to curtail human freedom.
15 posted on 08/23/2019 8:40:55 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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Us serfs will be eating “Impossible Burgers” and Soylent Green as “meat” in the future.


16 posted on 08/23/2019 8:42:05 AM PDT by C19fan
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If, suddenly, overnight, every human being on Earth became a Vegetarian, imagine all the farmland that would be needed to feed them!.

Feeding livestock is actually a way to concentrate food so that it can be more efficiently managed............


17 posted on 08/23/2019 8:42:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: hal ogen

Fact is, 200 years ago because charcoal was America’s “energy source” there was hardly a tree between the Mississippi and the East Coast. In the intervening years just about all the biomass lost in The Amazon is now more than replaced in the same region where 200 years ago there were few trees.


18 posted on 08/23/2019 8:42:59 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

What’s more, IIRC the “natives” have been burning swaths of The Amazon for a millennia or so and it doesn’t seem to hurt it much.


19 posted on 08/23/2019 8:45:16 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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The Vegans are like the gays .... trying to cram their way of living down everyone else’s throats. The latest rage with Progressives/envirowienies is vegetables only .... anti-meat. The interesting thing is that the SAD (Standard American Diet) & other diets heavy in veggies/grains, low in meat/fat, are NOT based on actual “science”. In fact, real science shows the opposite and you can actually REVERSE Type 2 Diabetes (which is on the rise, same consequences at Type 1 as far as diabetic retinopathy, amputations, kidney failure, etc.). It’s more than disgusting .... it’s nutritional medical malpractice for doctors to not put their patients on a low carb diet & treat T2D with diet, but instead hit them with pills (metformin, glucophage) & then when the pills no longer work, hit them with insulin in ever-increasing amounts. Sorry for the rant, but this has become a “mission” for me - educating people I know and/or love that they CAN get off insulin and return to normal A1c readings with a low carb, high healthy fat diet. BTW, saturated fat is not responsible for heart disease .... the villain is “inflammation” .... how to get inflamed? Eat lots of carbs, grains & vegetable seed oils.


20 posted on 08/23/2019 8:47:33 AM PDT by Qiviut (Support the country you live in or live in the country you support.)
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