There are certain conservation issues that always seem sexy to the documentarian. Anything to do with rhino or elephant poaching. Anything where there are two clear polarised sides–say trophy hunters vs animal rights activists. And stuff with apes, some nice shots in a rescue sanctuary and a good corruption scandal (sometimes all three). Don’t get me wrong, some of my favourite documentaries are about these topics. But when I heard about Grazing The Amazon, a documentary all about cows and deforestation in the world’s biggest rainforest, I immediately got excited. This is a topic that really really matters. In fact, it’s probably fair to say that the conversion of enormous areas of the Amazon, predominantly to cattle pasture, is one of the biggest environmental crises of our time. So I’m psyched somebody’s made a documentary about it. And I can’t wait to see it.
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