There's a monster in my kitchen: New Greenpeace video exposes destruction of forests for industrial

[Judi Lynn]

There’s a monster in my kitchen: New Greenpeace video exposes destruction of forests for industrial meat production
An area of the Amazon the size of the UK has already been ravaged by fire this year, conservationists claim

Harry Cockburn
1 hour ago

A new Greenpeace video featuring Brazilian actor Wagner Moura, who plays drug lord Pablo Escobar in the TV series Narcos, has been released to highlight the role of industrial meat production in rainforest destruction.

The video, titled “There’s a Monster in my Kitchen”, tells the story of a young boy who comes downstairs in the night to the fridge only to find a terrifying beast - Jag-wah, the jaguar - is unexpectedly in his home.

Jag-wah shows the young boy how the humans taking over his forest home to produce meat are fueling the clearance of precious forests - both for feed for animals reared for meat, and for space to graze the herds themselves.

The release of the video comes as a new analysis by Greenpeace UK of the latest fire data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research suggests that an area almost equivalent to the size of the UK has burned across Brazil so far this year.

Last year’s Amazon fires caught the media’s attention but the 2020 fire season has seen new records set across the board. Across Brazil, 226,485 sq km of land had burned up until the end of September.

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/greenpeace-uk-video-deforestation-meat-production-theres-a-monster-in-my-kitchen-b1204944.html