Making mincemeat out of the rainforest.(Spectrum)

From: Environment | Date: June 1, 2004 | Copyright information

Beef: It's what's deforesting the Amazon, according to a recent report released by the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Researchers have found that in an effort to make way for pastures, Brazil's cattle ranchers are destroying the world's largest rainforest at an unparalleled speed to offer consumers cheap, disease-free beef in a market weakened by a series of mad cow panics and foot-and-mouth disease scares. Low land prices in the Amazon basin an...

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