Grazing the Amazon (2018)
• June 12th, 2018 • 0h 49min
Documentary
Overview
There are 85 million cows in the Brazilian Amazon, which means three cows for each human dweller grazing today and area that was once forest. Less than fifty years ago, in the 1970s, the rainforest was intact. Since then, a portion the size of France has disappeared, 66% of which transformed into pastures. Much of this change is a consequence of government incentives that attracted thousands of farmers from southern lands. Cattle ranching became an economic and cultural banner of the Amazon, forging powerful politicians to defend it. In 2009, there was a game changer: the Public Prosecutor's Office sued large slaughterhouses, forcing them to supervise cattle supplying farms.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Bloed
Released on: 2011-06-03
Documentary
Elles Kiers and Sjef Meijman lived intensively with four Bunte Bentheimer pigs for seven months. Dur...
Landscapes at the World's Ends
Released on: 2010-05-16
Documentary
A non-verbal visual journey to the polar regions of our planet portrayed through a triptych montage ...
The Medicine of Forgiveness
Released on: 2001-01-01
Documentary
Benito Arévalo is an onaya: a traditional healer in a Shipibo-Konibo community in Peruvian Amazonia....
Voices That Heal
Released on:
Documentary
Herlinda Augustin is a Shipibo healer who lives with her family in Peruvian Amazonia. Will she and o...
Ayahuasca Diary
Released on: 2009-01-01
Documentary
Four Westerners with various ailments travel to Peruvian Amazonia to drink ayahuasca, a traditional ...
Meat
Released on: 2018-06-05
Documentary
Meat is the modern story of the animals we eat, as told by the people who never get to say their pie...
The Agency
Released on: 2020-12-04
Documentary
A look at the work of a group of reporters and photographers from EFE, a Spanish news agency founded...
Climate Change: The Facts
Released on: 2019-04-18
Documentary, TV Movie
After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate cha...
Amazonia: Healing with Sacred Plants
Released on: 2015-07-01
Documentary
Psychologist and anthropologist Alberto Villoldo talks with traditional healers of Madre de Dios, a ...
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Released on: 2007-03-08
Documentary
This film tries to blow the whistle on what it calls the biggest swindle in modern history: 'Man Mad...
An Inconvenient Truth
Released on: 2006-05-24
Documentary
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
Dark Green
Released on: 2021-10-14
Documentary
In Dark Green we follow conservationist and storyteller Paul Rosolie deep into the jungle of the Ama...
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Released on: 2017-07-28
Documentary
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes ...
Chasing Coral
Released on: 2017-03-16
Documentary
Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem that sustains us. Yet...
Make the World Greta Again
Released on: 2019-05-24
Documentary
Upon realising her generation won’t have a future unless the world’s politicians act now on climate ...
This Good Earth
Released on: 2022-04-22
Documentary
With increasing damage to ecosystems from the climate crisis and growing mental and physical damage ...
Beyond Borders
Released on: 2021-01-04
Documentary, Adventure
Pilot JP Schulze and filmmaker Louis Cole set off to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine, 19...
Miwene
Released on: 2022-10-16
Documentary
Steeped in the long oral tradition of Waorani storytelling, Gange Yeti shares her own coming-of-age ...
We Feed the World
Released on: 2005-09-10
Documentary
A documentary that exposes the shocking truths behind industrial food production and food wastage, f...
