Emily Cunningham

It's driving me mad that #PrayforAmazonas is trending with no or little talk of drivers. It's pretty simple: Brazil's main export is soybeans. These go, in large part, to feed livestock around the world. The demand for beef & dairy is driving this. https://oec.world/en/profile/country/bra/ …

This is not moralistic vegan lecturing, this is cause & effect: stop eating beef, meat in general & dairy products, full stop, the end. Don't just #PrayforAmazonas, for crying out loud! Put a dent in global soy demand. Global trade agreements are key. https://mollymep.org.uk/2019/06/26/ft-letter-mercosur/ …

And don't come to me with "but drinking soy milk and eating tofu is just the same" - that's just crap. First of all, much more inefficient to go via animals instead of direct to humans. Second, soy milk & tofu most often has EU (or US) origin of soy crops.

Also true: Bolsonaro's policies are driving this. I'm guessing there was similar demand for beef & dairy under past presidents, yet we didn't see this. I say this as a vegan. He won on a ticket of racist, reactionary, right wing sentiments. So, we must also fight those things.

Very true, but there is pressure and profits to be made on international (and national - part of deforestation is for domestic beef grazing) markets. Important to acknowledge & reduce that pressure.