Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Soybean production is destroying the rainforest

Ok. This is the ultimate in irony. All those vegetarians who talk about how feeding the world soy and tofu will help reduce the impact we have on the environment are going to be upset. I suggest that they start supporting free range chickens. They can live anywhere and have a lighter impact on the environment.

In this month's National Geographic article, I discover that Brazil is slowly overtaking the US as the world's largest soybean producer. They are destroying rainforests to create fields for SOYBEANS!!!

Not a worthy cause to loose the world's largest repository of genetic diversity, potentially future cures for cancer, regulator of the earth's temperature....

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