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The True History of Chocolate Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe See book keywords and concepts

But the new settlers from the Iberian peninsula had to deal on a day-to-day basis with these people following the Conquest, whether constructing a new capital on the rubble that was once Tenochtitlan, or forcing tribute from unwilling vassals, or harnessing native labor on the newly founded cattle ranches and plantations that were usurping traditional lands everywhere in "New Spain." This was truly frontier country, and as on any frontier a kind of hybrid way of life took form.

Mistreatment by the Spaniatds in their newly established mines, plantations, and cattle ranches also had its lethal effect. By the close of the 17th century, when the fat, decadent Cosimo III de' Medici was contentedly sipping his petfumed chocolate, only 10 percent of the original Indian population of the Americas had survived this holocaust. This human cataclysm was to have a profound effect on the geographic distribution of the cacao plant, and on how cacao traveled the ttade routes within the Americas and across the Atlantic to Europe.

Earth changes, nature's backlash and lessons yet to be learned by humans (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Those pathogens spread quickly through non-natural animal production facilities (bird farms, cattle ranches, fish farming ponds, etc.), accelerating the mutation rate and greatly increasing the chance of cross-species infections that can then be spread by human-to-human contact. Bird flu, for example, remains globally uncontrolled and could mutate into a human form at any moment.

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations David R. Montgomery See book keywords and concepts

A few miles in from the forest edge, family farms and small villages gave way to cattle ranches. As subsistence farmers pushed farther into the forest, ranchers took over abandoned farms. Cows can graze land with soil too poor to grow crops, but it takes a lot of ground to support them. Large-scale cattle grazing prevents the forest from regrowing, causing further erosion and sending frontier communities farther and farther into the jungle in an endless push for fresh land. The vicious cycle is plainly laid out for all to see.

The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals Leslie Taylor, ND See book keywords and concepts

These generous tax and credit incentives have created more than 29 million acres of large cattle ranches in the Brazilian Amazon, even though the typical ranch could cover less than half its costs without these subsidies. Even these grazing lands do not last forever. Soon the lack of nutrients in the soil and overgrazing degrade them, and they are abandoned for newly cleared land. In Brazil alone, more than 63,000 square miles of land has reportedly been abandoned in this way.

Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world John Robbins See book keywords and concepts

So great is the ecological destruction caused by fish farming, particularly of shrimp, that a 2000 report published in the New Internationalist compared the environmental damage caused by fish farming to that caused by replacing tropical rainforests with cattle ranches.84 The point, of course, is to produce more food for people to eat. But intensive shrimp and prawn industries typically locate in areas that have traditionally grown rice—the primary staple for most of the world's people. With every new shrimp pond, rice paddies are lost, and with them, food for local people.

Earth Right H. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts

By August 1988, nearly 12 percent of the Amazon rainforest had been torched and destroyed for farms, cattle ranches, dams, roads, and mining. Why would the Rainforest Action Network stage hundreds of protests at Burger King franchises and even run a full-page ad in the New York Times asking readers to pressure the company to stop destroying rainforests of Central America? Much of Latin American forest has been destroyed over the past twenty-five years to market exotic woods and to create land for cattle grazing.

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