Tofu is destroying the Amazon rain forest.
A big joke is that if we all became vegan, the land would gain. Baloney! A major crop used is soy. As in soybeans. Fields of it used to feed livestock. To make cooking oil. And is darn near every processed food people use. I can only use International Foods coffee creamer because it is the only brand without soy. Soy make my stomach hate me. Lots of people cant use soy. Funny thing is if I take soybeans from my field and offer it to my mule, sheep and chickens..they refuse to eat it. Yet, it is put in pet foods and animal feed and they are forced to consume it.Brazil grows acres and acres of soybeans. Their idiot Pres pushes it. So farmers steal land from the indigenous, burn the rain forest of old growth and plant massive crops of soy. Climate change is the result of tofu eating people who think they are saving the land by not eating meat. So, instead of razing the forests to run cattle on grass, they instead raze it to mono-culture soybeans. Either way, humans eat and the land suffers.
When someone brags about eating vegan to save the earth...look again. Those veggies and crops need bare fields to grow. You are just exchanging one destructive practice for another.
Soy is not edible. And yet corporations feed it to us. Soy is high in estrogen. Reason they think why boys grow bosoms and girls get bosoms and menses at age 11.
The other thing foisted on us is palm oil. Cut down 100s of year old trees to plant palm plantations. You know what..I went back to lard.
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I happen to be vegetarian (for spiritual reasons and others)
My eldest son has been for 30 years...
And we both do NOT eat tofu or soy products ...
Nor processed foods.
SEITAN is an alternative and is made out of wheat.
Also, very high in protein and hardly any calories.
I am (so is my son) all for the conservation of the rain forests that are the orangutans's habitat.
No palm oil for me either!
Brazil then decided to cultivate this new rich purchaser and so cut down millions of valuable trees so as to grow more soybean.
The US is still trying to recover from the soybean crops decimated by those trade wars that eventually did more harm than good for the American people as a whole.
Every action has a counteraction.
True that.
Pols - as a group - seem Incapable of Forethought.
Be like - I'll do such & such or so & so ... Then THIS Will happen!!
When it DOESN'T, they're thunderstruck & befuddled.
As a group - They haven't the Forethought or ability to deal with the unforeseen needed to play Tic-Tac-Toe. ...
Also ...
Find a way to twist ANY Frickin' blog into Something 'bout TRUMP ...
Even SOYBEANS!!! ...
Whatever -
The South American Rainforest is Gone.
A good portion of it was sacrificed by fast food joints to grow cheap beef so they can undercut one another's burger prices by 5¢.
It is getting pathological with some of those esteemed TDS-Bloggers!
Increased Soil Erosion. Soil erosion in Central African Republic.
Without trees to anchor fertile soil, erosion can occur and sweep the land into rivers. The agricultural plants that often replace the trees cannot hold onto the soil. Many of these plants—such as coffee, cotton, palm oil, soybean and wheat—can actually exacerbate soil erosion. Scientists have estimated that a third of the world’s arable land has been lost through soil erosion and other types of degradation since 1960. And as fertile soil washes away, agricultural producers move on, clearing more forest and continuing the cycle of soil loss.
Ethiopia.
There's a Solution for that -
See the presentation in my 1st Comment, above
SERIOUSLY - It's Utterly INCREDIBLE.
In some places it Literally takes the audience's Breath Away.
Your video was 2013, this one is from 2019, so more is now known, and were still not finished.
Perhaps different approaches optimized for specific locales ...
Letting Nature do what it Does...
Remove Human Civilization from the US Great Plains & let it revert to Grasslands & Bison.
What about farming indigenous shrubs and grasses for their seeds on a massive scale.
The government could use it's own land and incentivize the farming community to set aside a portion of all farms to do the same. Then get the seeds spread anywhere it's needed by small crop planes. 3 or 4 planes could probably seed 1 million acres a year. If there is a rainy season it could be timed to suit that.
Any ideas?
Notably the original Eastern Woodlands of the US.
Some certified organic and some not.
All of them were grown in American from non-GMO soybeans.
What countries get their soybeans from the Amazon?