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RAINFOREST RANCHING

**Rainforest ranching is a very common form of deforestation. The rainforest's are threatened by companies ****that use cattle ranching for their beef products. As the need for grazing land increases, companies are tearing **** down the rainforest. The land in the rainforest is cheap and that is what people who are looking for land to **** cattle ranch want. Rainforest's in Central and South America are affected the most by cattle ranching, and because of it **** they supply the cheapest beef to places like North America, China, and Russia. ** Many fast food establishments claim to not use rainforest beef but that is not valid, and it is believed that most fast food chains are using beef from the rain forest. It is estimated that for every one pound of beef, there was 200 square feet of the rainforest destroyed.

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Campbell Soup Company 1 Campbell Place Camden NJ 08103-1701

Dear Douglas R. Conant,

As Campbell Soup's President and Chief Executive Officer, a company that has be running for over one hundred forty years, are you aware of the damage that the company inflicts on the rainforests? Using rain forest beef, as you do, is contributing to major portions of the rainforest being destroyed. The grasses required to feed your cattle strip the soil from all its nutrients. Also, with your constant moving of the animals compacts the soil greatly which leaves many plants which are native to the area unable to establish their complex root systems. Once you farmland in the rainforest has been completely depleted of nutrients, it forces your company to move to another area of the beautiful rainforest and then cycle continues over and over again. Campbell's cattle in the rainforest grazes the land and then just leaves it stripped of nutrients, barren, and sustaining no-one. Cattle ranching is now the biggest cause of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, nearly 80% of destroyed land is home to cattle farms. Every year about 50,000 plant, animal, and insect species are lost due to deforestation, and you are supporting that issue. The rainforest is the "lungs of our planet" providing about 20 percent of the worlds oxygen. The demand for your beef shouldn't be at the worlds expense. Your company needs to stop being a major force behind the huge issue of deforestation.

Sincerely, Concerned Citizen