The global food crisis and climate change have cast the spotlight on negative aspects of the cattle industry, such as the high consumption of vegetable protein to generate relatively little meat, and the sector's role in global warming. Because of its cattle, Brazil is among the world's leading emitters of greenhouse gases... Cattle in the country's Amazon jungle region, which numbered 73.7 million head in 2006, occupied 74 percent of the total deforested area."
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