Jul. 28, 2017 08:58AM EST
Beef cattle awaiting slaughter in a corral. Fabio Nascimento
Study Links Most Amazon Deforestation to 128 Slaughterhouses
By Eduardo Pegurier, Translated by Bruno Moraes
Satellites are mechanical reporters of the Amazon deforestation process. By documenting the degradation and gaps created by the clear-cutting process over the years, they deliver the verdict: Two-thirds of the Amazon’s deforested area has been turned into pastures.
From the ground, the cattle count reveals that the Amazon is home to more cattle than people. By 2016, the region’s cattle numbers amounted to 85 million head, compared to a human population of 25 million—more than three cows per person. In the city of São Félix do Xingu, which contains the largest herd in Brazil, this proportion reaches 18 cows to 1 person.
The Brazilian Amazon covers 61 percent of the nation’s territory and harbors 40 percent of the national herd. Cattle…
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Exposing the Big Game 
OMG! Wrong wrong, wrong. And yet the good people of the world do not lift a finger to stop the butchery. If there is disease that is going to wipeout humans from earth, it isn’t getting here fast enough!
https://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/study-links-most-amazon-deforestation-to-128-slaughterhouses/
We just are eating the world away, and happy about it.
This article was originally published in Portuguese by ((o))eco and can be found at their site, or it can be viewed at Mongabay.com, which edited this version of the story for English speakers.
Please add the above note to your repost, thanks,
Erik
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