Burger Deforestation

8/13/2019 Burger Deforestation

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Andrs Bereznev


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Fat: 14gCholesterol: 47mg

Content: One or more cooked pattie of ground meat

Lettuce Bacon Tomato Onion

Pickles Cheese Salsas

Billions and billions of burgers are made every year

Burger information


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Since 2004 Brazil has become the worlds biggest meat exporter.

In the last 50 years Brazil has increased its meat production from 1.3 milliontones to 9 million tones per year.

Most fast food restaurants containing burgers in the menu depend onBrazil

s meat.

Brazils global meat trade has reached the value of $40 billion

Brazilian government makes a huge profit out of this industry

Massive meat production


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Starts with a pretty rainforest with lots of animals and plants

So how is the meat produced?

Then its cut down leavinganimals and tribes with nohomes

Then its cleaned viaburning

Then its transformedinto factories


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The cows areslaughtered

The meat is packedand sold

Now people can find it here


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Since 1970 , 600 000 square kilometres have been destroyed.5.4 million acres are lost per year.

All this amount of trees cut down contribute hugely tocleaning the atmosphere from green house gasses such as

carbon dioxide. And more than that, the amount of greenhouse emissions caused by burning these forest to cleanthem and the amount of gasses emitted by the Industriesthat are placed there are gigantic. Lots of species havebeen endangered and some of the worlds unknown

species that lived in the rainforest have been lost.More than 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide are releasedto the atmosphere due to deforestation, mainly thecutting and burning of forests, every year.

Deforestation


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Cutting Cleaning Producing


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The high emissions of carbon dioxide into theatmosphere cause the heating of the planet. Thecarbon dioxide builds up and the temperature inthe area increases as CO2 retains heat. Thiscauses changes like dry seasons, very hotsummers, etc.

Climate change


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Cifor. Hamburger connection fuels amazon destruction. n.d.http://www.cifor.org/publications/pdf_files/media/Amazon.pdf (accessed January 20, 2014).

Climate and Weather. Deforestation. n.d.http://www.climateandweather.net/global_warming/deforestation.htm (accessed January 20, 2014).

Cnptia. Global Warming and Agricultural Production in Brazil. n.d.http://www.cnptia.embrapa.br/content/global-warming-and-agricultural-production-brazil.html(accessed January 20, 2014).

Global issues. Beef. 22 August 2010.http://www.globalissues.org/article/240/beef#Creatingmassconsumptionofbeef (accessed January 20,2014).

Global meat news. Brazilian Beef: The China of Latin America. 11 May 2012.http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Analysis/Brazilian-beef-The-China-of-Latin-America (accessedJanuary 20, 2014).

National Geographic enviroment. Deforestation. n.d.http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation-overview/(accessed January 20, 2014).

. Last of the Amazon. n.d. http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/last-of-amazon/ (accessed January 20, 2014).

UTK. Carnival to the Amazon. 3 May 2007. http://web.utk.edu/~rkirkla1/Brazil/government.html(accessed January 20, 2014).

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