The Amazon Rainforest located in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil is ablaze like never before. The surge in burning can be attributed to the extreme rise in commodity prices. As demand for more food grain is needed, farmers are pushed to dramatically increase soybean and corn production, removing massive tracks of pristine forest in their wake.
John Stanmeyer, photographer
Animal agriculture is by far the #1 source of grain demand throughout the world. The above photo, devastating as it is, depicts the tiniest slice of destruction wrought by the animal industry.
Solution? Stop eating the flesh of other creatures. What I mean to say is:
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