I recommend you visiting the Brazilian region of Pantanal, if possible travel through Mato Grosso do Sul -> Mato Grosso -> southern Pará where it transitions into the Amazon.

You will see vast areas of cattle ranching, soybeans plantation used for cattle feed, and other crops that can be used as cattle feed. All that area used to be the Pantanal and Amazon, now transformed to grow beef.

If we would reduce the calories wasted on beef, this area could still have a lot more native vegetation. Of course, it's purely wishful thinking because this ship has sailed, beef consumption will take a long time to stop growing, these farms will fight for their lives to keep producing, and we've lost a huge area of incredible nature to eat some steaks and burgers.

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onraglanroad 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And none of that is for feeding starving people who have no food.

It's all to grow profitable luxury food.

	▲	ponector 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't know which one is worse: to grow soybeans to feed cattle or to use as biodiesel. What is really upsetting, the speed with which jundles are replaced with oil palm. Humans have mastered exploitation of everything: the nature, the livestock and other humans.
	▲	cromka 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		People starving come from parts for the world affected by global warming, which unsustainable farming is one of the reasons. Which, in turn, crates mass migration issues. Which, in turn, is a major reason behind massive shift of Overton window and the current world situation we're in.