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Note that this soybean farming disaster involves the continuous, massive,
and unnecessary production of animal feed. The author should have pointed
this out, but I've noticed that they usually don't.

Cheers,

Lee.


Re: Rainforests may be gone in 50 years
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=539801
Philip Fearnside, of Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research,
explained: "Soybean farms cause some forest clearing directly, but they have
a much greater impact by consuming cleared land, savannah and transitional
forests, thereby pushing ranchers and slash-and-burn farmers even deeper
into the forest frontier.

"Soybean farming also provides a key economic and political impetus for new
highways and infrastructure projects, which accelerate deforestation by
other actors," he said.
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