But adding to that is a Reuters report that relays the information that cattle ranchers are far outpacing soy farmers on newly deforested land: 32 % of New Deforested Land in Study for Cattle That's based on a new study done by environmental groups and the soy industry (yes,
potential bias alert goes off... though I have no evidence of it) which shows that of 630 sample areas of land deforested since July 2006, only 12 of them were planted with soy.
In a recent training with renowned neuroscientist Rick Hanson, he explained that our inherited negativity
bias is an outdated tendency that kept early humans and human ancestors
alerted to
potential threats in the environment.