[skohan]

This is no doubt a milestone we should celebrate. At the same time, the Brazilian beef industry is the driving force behind slash-and-burn expansion of agricultural land into the rainforest, so Brazil is still a massive contributor to climate change.

[Qem]

> the Brazilian beef industry is the driving force behind slash-and-burn expansion of agricultural land into the rainforest

I'd put it on par with landgrabbers (grileiros, as they are called in Brazil). A lot of devastation happens in public lands, that are stolen using fake documents and the help of corrupt property registries (the term grileiro comes from grilo, cricket in portuguese, as it's said a common practice by landgrabbers was to store forged property titles in boxes full of crickets, so the generated dirt and chewing by the insects would give the forgeries the appearance of authentic, ancient documents). Any traditional populations are harassed and threatened until expelled. Then the bulldozers, chainsaws and cattle are deployed against the forest, to create facts on the ground to reinforce fake property claims. Cattle ranching helps the bottom line of the criminals, but the largest gains are from taking public lands and further selling them as if it were private property. Brazil should end its obsolete "cartório" property registry system and migrate is record keeping to public institutions, fully geolocated, to end this registry tampering.