Brazil: Cattle, Soyanization, and Climate Change

This video is part of Brighter Green’s multimedia analysis of the globalization of factory farming: the spread of Western methods of intensive animal agriculture, as well as the social, environmental, and animal welfare consequences of these actions.

This six-minute video highlights the effects of large-scale cultivation of soybeans for farmed animal feed and cattle and other livestock production on some of Latin America’s most important biomes.

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Here is the same video narrated in Portuguese.