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How Big Beef is fueling the Amazon's destruction

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    ThePandaManWhoLaughs
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    u/InsertNameHere it's behind a paywall, would you mind excerpting sections of the documents that capture the important points?

    u/InsertNameHere it's behind a paywall, would you mind excerpting sections of the documents that capture the important points?

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    1. InsertNameHere
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      Oh, that's a shame, it didn't used to be. The article has a lot of great visuals as you scroll through that I can't really share as a quote. I'd recommend looking at it on archive.is. A lot of it...

      Oh, that's a shame, it didn't used to be. The article has a lot of great visuals as you scroll through that I can't really share as a quote. I'd recommend looking at it on archive.is. A lot of it uses stories to talk about broader issues making it hard to give the full background in these quotes but here's some short snippets that give the general overall idea

      JBS says it sets the highest standards for its suppliers, but it’s using a greenwashed version of an animal’s origin and working within a legal system so full of loopholes that prosecutors, environmentalists and even ranchers themselves consider it a farce.

      Once he got his boots dirty, he saw that this was the work of the cattle industry. More than 70% of deforested land in the Amazon turns into pasture, the first step in a supply chain that’s among the most complex in the world.

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