> On 5/21/05, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Alarming new figures show that the destruction of the Amazon
> rainforest-the world's
> biggest tropical forest-has accelerated. Booming agriculture,
> especially soya growing,
> is one of the main culprits
>
>
>
> The title of this seems misleading though. As someone who is
> emphatically not a vegetarian,I seem to remember that the
> overwhelming majority of soybeans grown are used as animal feed.
>
> A political argument could be made that SOME vegetarians are part
> of a completely unrelated political problem. But they certainly are
> not responsible for deforestation in Brazil to plant soybeans.
Agreed, it's typically animal feed, which brings another issue to the forefront that is not addressed in the story at all... GMO Soybeans, and the pesticides that genetic modification provides resistance against.
Leigh