{"id":676361,"date":"2020-12-17T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=676361"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:57:55","slug":"demand-for-meat-is-driving-deforestation-in-brazil-changing-the-soy-industry-could-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=676361","title":{"rendered":"Demand for meat is driving deforestation in Brazil\u2014changing the soy industry could stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soy may have a pretty innocuous reputation thanks to its association with vegan food and meat alternatives. But don&#8217;t be fooled\u2014crops of this pale legume are behind much of Brazil&#8217;s epidemic of deforestation. Since 2000, Brazil has doubled its total area of soy plantation to 36 million hectares and become the world&#8217;s largest producer. This expansion has erased vast swathes of forest and other habitats in some of the country&#8217;s most biodiverse regions.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-12-demand-meat-deforestation-brazilchanging-soy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Demand for meat is driving deforestation in Brazil\u2014changing the soy industry could stop it<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soy may have a pretty innocuous reputation thanks to its association with vegan food and meat alternatives. But don&#8217;t be fooled\u2014crops of this pale legume are behind much of Brazil&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}