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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tejwant Singh" data-source="post: 56529" data-attributes="member: 138"><<My point was specifically refering to the decimation of raniforests, particlary the greatest, the Amazon Basin, which has mostly been cut down to feed Americas craving for beef, and destroyes the fragile soil which the tress hold together, and which is washed away once the soil is no longer afforded protection....>> Just an observation, no intentions of deviating from the original subject. The decimation of the Amazon basin started in the 1920’s when The Ford family bought millions of acres in the  basin to plant rubber and later for rice and wheat plantation. They named the place Fordlandia. The farms were surrounded by roads, schools, hospitals etc etc. They failed in all because of the fragile soil as Shaheedian mentioned. Eventually in the 70’s the land was donated to Brazilian govt by the family. Cattle raising came much later. The reason to post this is to emphasize the fact that Randip Singh mentioned. It was the crops that have devastated the forests much more than cattle breeding. One more blatant example is in the state of Mato Grosso (dense forest) which is also in Brazil where millions of acres have been decimated to grow Soya beans. Now the same farmers are invading the lands of Guaranis in Paraguay for the same purpose. Majority of the cattle breeding takes place in the Pampas- the plains- which border Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Tejwant</blockquote>

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