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"There’s one industry that destroys more forests than any other — beef.
Forests around the world are cleared to make way for cattle destined for your
dinner plate.
And Australia is no different.
More than half the continent is used for grazing livestock. And most
deforestation happens on Australian cattle farms.
Now, there is a global push to end deforestation through regulation, consumer
action and corporate accountability.
And supermarkets are being singled out, urged to stop selling beef from
properties that clear forest.
The beef industry is pushing back, and one of its weapons is the dictionary. It
says clearing forests on cattle properties shouldn’t always count as
deforestation.
The Australian Conservation Foundation, which is pressuring supermarkets to
change their policy in Australia, has examined hundreds of instances of
deforestation in Australia.
It has compiled a list of 50 properties that have cleared significant areas of
forest in the past few years that all meet two key criteria: data suggests all
of them contain habitat of protected species or ecological communities, and all
of them are linked to the domestic beef industry.
The list reveals what deforestation for beef looks like across the country."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
