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· 5 years ago
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You’re missing a step. After a fire, the soil is very fertile. Common practice is to slash and burn Amazon forest to grow vegetables and fruits for as long as the soil can support being pumped full of commercial fertilizers. This is to supply primarily the appetite of developed countries for “exotic” fruits and vegetables or “out of season” things like straw berries in winter or things that don’t grow where you live but you want for taste or variety. Then those shipments, after polluting the water table and being flown and trucked all over the world are eaten.
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· 5 years ago
Local farmers who primarily produce agriculture and not animals for local consumption can’t compete with commercial agriculture and end up in debt and often sell out their lands to larger agriculture conglomerates. Once the soil can no longer viably mass produce.. well... produce... hearty and easily grown grazing plants and seeded and the land is used for agriculture.
