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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: pocotrader who wrote (1460960)6/5/2024 9:10:41 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1576739
 
Pocotrader, from the article:
Climate scientists agree that people need to consume less beef, the largest agricultural source of greenhouse gasses and a driver of Amazon deforestation. But the cattle industry is a major source of Brazilian economic development and the government is striving to conquer new export markets. The world’s top beef exporter wants everyone, everywhere to eat its beef.
And that quote that I highlight has a hyperlink to this article:

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How an American meat broker is fueling Amazon deforestation (AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — As incomes in China have grown in the last decade, so has China’s appetite for beef. No longer out of reach for China’s middle class, beef now sizzles in home woks and restaurant kitchens.

China has become the world’s biggest importer of beef, and Brazil is China’s biggest supplier, according to United Nations Comtrade data. More beef moves from Brazil to China than between any other two countries.

But the Brazilian cattle industry is a major driver of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Data analysis by The Associated Press and the Rainforest Investigations Network, a nonprofit reporting consortium, found that a little-known American company is among the key suppliers and distributors feeding China’s hunger for beef – and the Amazon deforestation that it fuels.

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So it seems that China's demand for imported beef is increasing, Brazil's market for exported beef is increasing, and an American company is one of the major brokers of this trade.

And of course, that's all causing that climate changey thingy, so the AP will start writing articles talking about how humanity's appetite for beef is literally killing the planet.

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