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>> to ensure that didnt happen to her, janet clark quit an insurance job and moved back to the farm thats been in her family five generations. like a lot of dairy farmers, she voted for president trump. >> i dont have second thoughts of my decision in 2016. im on the fence of what my decision will be in 2020. >> trumps trade disputes have hurt dairy prices and dairy exports. to diversify dairy farms started growing crops, corn, soy, whose prices have been hurt by tariffs. >> your back up busines...

When we did see the fire, its extraordinary how much of the forest they have devastated. during our three-hour flight we did not see one instance of the brazilian army. the president saying 43,000 of them are here to fight the fires. we occasionally see them in the skies fighting in cargo planes. we saw none on the ground. little signs of human life at all. only one bird making it around in the smoke over that forest. a lot of cattle, sometimes theyre the reason why the forest is cleared for agr...

During our three-hour flight we did not see one instance of the brazilian army. the president here saying 43,000 of them have been deployed to fight the fires. we occasionally see them in the skies over the city flying in cargo planes to draw water. we saw none on the ground. little siegns of human life at all. only one bird. a lot of cattle. sometimes theyre the reason why the forest is cleared for agricultural land so they can grow soy to feed the cattle or the cattle can graze and be made for...

Brazilian army. the president here saying 43,000 of them have been deployed to fight the fires. we ovaticcasionally see them in skies to draw water. we saw none on the ground. little signs of human life at all. only one bird making it around that i saw in the smoke over that forest. a lot of cattle. sometimes theyre the reason why the forest is cleared for agricultural land, so they can grow soy to mefeed the cattle, the cattle can then be made into beef for our diets. 1.5 football fields per mi...

On earth which is clean air, clean water. president trump talks about how he loves clean air, america has the cleanest air and the cle cleanest water in the world. thats not krcorrect. if you really understood where we create that type of inherit wealth, the wealth that sustains public he public health and environment and our food system which as we all know provides a critical care of oxygen and water and other ecosystem services that the world and humanity cant live without. >> and so what doe...

Devastation these fires are causing. now its remarkable because a lot of the time the aircraft had to stay higher than it wanted to to get away from the sheer density of the smoke. we turned the air vents off. often it made it hard to see what damage had already been done below. when you come across the fires, they are distinctive, raging, sometimes in a simple straight line going all the way across the open plain or through the forest themselves. whats amazing to see is exactly how much damage ...

The flames surge. they say the surge in flames comes at night when people come out to set the fires. you heard me right, the flames are human-made, because of bolsonaros governments policy saying the amazon shouldnt be product, people have perhaps felt licensed to clear it, deforest it. we saw hundreds of cattle lining the fields, theyre really behind the beef that you and i eat, such a ready part of peoples diets. often the land is cleared to let them graze or to grow soy to feed them. the tari...

Police said the fires surge at night, they get the most amount of flames, because thats when people set fire to them. its extraordinary thato think lot is human made. people trying to deforest so they can use the land for agriculture, soy production, they can feed the soy to the beef or just let cattle feed on that particular land, down to the things you and i like to eat on a daily basis, the global appetite for meat. its amazing to wake up here as the world continues its criticism of brazils a...

For agricultural use. >> thats right. so brazil is a major exporter of beef, second only to the united states. >> right. >> it is also a major exporter of soy, which is why going vegan isnt necessarily a way to address this problem. but you have the agricultural interests in this. you have the bbb lobby, the beef, bullets and bible lobby. that helped to elect bolsonaro in the first place. and they are very keen to see this area exploited and to become much wealthier for it. >> lets not forget th...

Soy is also grown too, sometimes fed to the cattle for beef. beef is an essential part of your and my diet, although many people have said damage done here means we should eat a lot less meat and you were hearing about the trade crisis. and tariffs by the united states with china mean that china looks for another source of beefnd that is brazil a lot of the time. so everything happening in the world to some degree links back to here including changes in climate as well. and the big fear amongst ...