Eating Less Beef Seems to Be the Only Way to End Amazonian Deforestation
(WorldNews Environment)

Beef production has become a major driver of tropical deforestation, responsible for as much as 65 percent of rainforest destruction caused by the global agricultural commodities trade in the first decade of the 21st century, according to a 2015 study. The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies’ Global Forest Atlas states that cattle ranching is the largest driver of deforestation in all Amazonian countries, responsible for as much as 80 percent of current deforestation. About 450,000 square kilometers of land has been deforested in the Brazilian Amazon alone, turned into cattle pasture in order to accommodate a herd of more than 200 million head of cattle. One proposed...