Is the price of Amazon Beef worth the cost?

Amazon beef demand rising as trees fall

There is a lot of things going on down in the Amazon rain forest, and it is not looking for cures for diseases or cancer. Its to raise cattle for the consumption for people world wide. The rising demand for this beef that is certified free of FMD (Foot Mouth Disease) is crippling the Amazon rain forest at a high rate. 60% of the deforestation in the Amazon is due to cattle ranches. This boom has been happening especially due to other countries that had problems with FMD that obviously could not export tainted beef. The Brazilian government is trying to get involved to help regulate the deforestation, but no such luck is happening yet. With the scare of FMD its making countries all over the world want to get their beef from a safe place, but at the cost of not being able to possibly find something we haven't discovered yet that could be profound for the history of mankind.

Man killed by cannonball

Dangerous hobby

In early February of this year, a man by the name of Sam White of Chester Virginia was blown up when a civil war cannonball exploded while trying to restore it. Mr. White had been taking up this hobby full time ever since he had retired from delivering packages for UPS in 1998. He was very passionate about what he did, collecting things as small as bullets amongst other things at various old civil war battlegrounds. He was well educated in the things he was collecting and performed all the disarm of all live munitions. The particular Cannonball that was being disarmed was a naval cannonball which is more powerful and the fuse is more complex than the infantry cannonballs. He had 18 more in his driveway waiting to be restored when the explosion happened. Mr. White had also restored over 1600 shells for museums and collectors. When the cannonball exploded, a piece of shrapnel had lodged itself in the porch of a neighbors house a quarter mile away.