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.