Bibles, bullets and beef: Amazon cowboy culture at odds with Brazil’s climate goals
17-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com

Bibles, bullets and beef: Amazon cowboy culture at odds with Brazil’s climate goals

As the first climate summit in the Amazon approaches, a gulf is opening between what the area’s farming lobby wants, and what the world needsRevealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges againThe life and death of a ‘laundered’ cow in the Amazon rainforestYellowstone in Montana may have the most romanticised cowboy culture in the world thanks to the TV drama series of the same name starring Kevin Costner. But the true home of the 21st-centu
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