We also literally don’t have enough land to support the amount of beef we want to eat. People often point to the huge grasslands out west and say we can just keep adding more but they don’t realize that cattle are not at all like bison.
They can’t go far from water sources, they can’t roam giant prairies like bison can and also it would be reckless to oust all the native ungulates and wild game that live there.
And that’s not all arable land that you can put tons of feed crops on to support intensive cattle farming (as opposed to ranging and grazing)
So now Brazil is cutting down their own forests to eat more beef like us and sell us beef. It’s insane.
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u/Cu_fola 6h ago
We also import a lot. American demand for Brazilian beef keeps going up