the Thing is the steak. It is an old Swedish expression that for several reasons, past its date of minimum durability. What you wanted to say when it declared that the thing was the steak was about: No problem.
in itself a growing problem. In the piece of meat on the plate is the intersection of several of today’s major crises and controversies.
the Development of the Amazon makes this clear. Where are devastated rainforest, the world’s green jättelunga, to give place to the gigantic sojafält and growing pastures for the country’s sole export product, beef cattle. This converge is also the existential threat against mankind, with the destructive political samtidströmningarna. This worsens the climate crisis and the threats to the biodiversity of a president comes from the authoritarian far-right extremism.
Jair Bolsonaro are profiling themselves as arrogant klimattorped in the service of the meat and the soy industry. Amazon should are devastated primarily by economic reasons but also, in all cases, you get the impression, a matter of principle, for that the climate is driven by the pk-kärringar.
also the most brutal means. In a shocking report (3/3) tells the DN-employees Lotta Härdelin and Henrik Brandão Jönsson on how small farmers in the Amazon murder on behalf of the pastoralists in search of more land for their animals. You recognize it from the old westerns: the mighty skrupelfrie ranchägaren that allows its two times as harass and attack grannfamiljen. But here is the reality. Over a thousand people reported to have been murdered in land conflict. Only a fraction of the cases have resulted in trials.
the Hunger for pasture, and in the foundation world hunger for succulent inexpensive steaks, the driver for death of people, animals, plants, ecosystems.
the largest exporter of red meat. Also Sweden put the teeth in brazil’s flesh. We should refrain. The world wildlife fund in their ”köttguide” red light for south american beef of the climate and environmental reasons and points especially out the brazilian meat.
To this, as the crime which follows in the boskapshjordarnas track, and the political destruction of president Bolsonaro engaged.
the World’s hunger for succulent inexpensive steaks, the driver for death of people, animals, plants, ecosystems.
The brazilian meat raises the constantly recurring issue of ”individual responsibility” versus ”the structures that must change”. It is a skenkonflikt. ”Structures” must often be changed in order that the individual should have the opportunity to ”take responsibility”. But it is through the ”take responsibility” that we have individuals in common can force structural changes.
boycott the brazilian meat in the stores is not difficult. There are options. At restaurants and as a guest of the caterers, it can be difficult. There is rarely a lack of knowledge about the cheap köttbitens origin, perhaps also sometimes a lack of interest in sharing the knowledge you have.
A particular problem is the soybean, Amazon, other major industrial product. The brazilian soybean is exported largely as feed in livestock production. It means that meat produced in countries other than Brazil may be a link in a chain that stretches from the deforested rainforest to the fallen Swedish table.
the consumer power comes in. Question about the country of origin. Question about the feed and environmental certification. Ask your livsmedelshandlare and the staff at your lunchkrog. Force them to ask further. Way a besvärlighetspris on budgetköttet. Contribute to create a structural pressure. Finally, perhaps the thing can still result in better beef.
