You're certainly right. Even EU imports soya from amazon to feed its cows.

Not eating beef / meat / dairy is the single best thing one can do to help.

Source? From what I've seen, most beef imports into the US come from Canada, Mexico, then Australia.

https://www.beefmagazine.com/beef-quality/update-us-cattle-e...

This "my particular country doesn't import most of its cattle from Brazil" doesn't mean that you're not creating demand and perhaps also influencing the market in a way that someone's beef is. (Collectively, obviously.) The argument sounds similar to "but my country isn't polluting, it's China where we order all our stuff!" And, yeah, animal feed like others already said. It's all not quite as simple as "source? I don't believe I'm part of the problem by creating demand for meat here" coming from the country where the average person contributes the most to global warming

The OP was clearly saying that the importation of beef into America was causing clearing of the Amazon, when the link is a bit more complicated. Yes, some things are a bit fungible in the world economy, some trade tariffs encourage things like soya from Brazil for food etc. But just nailing the US for it when the EU, Japan, and China is just as culpable is silly.

> The OP was clearly saying that the importation of beef into America was causing clearing of the Amazon

I don't see them mentioning the Amazon or hinting that the USA's imports are contributing there, but maybe I'm misreading their comment then (also when re-reading it now I don't see what you're referring to). Oh, or are you referring to the link they posted rather than their comment itself?

"The easiest way to support tropical rainforest is to eat less beef. The amazon is cleared for cattle grazing, much of which is imported into America."

In addition to what ipqk said, a large amount of deforestation is for growing soy. Approximately 77% of global soy production [2] is used for producing animal feed. It's much more environmentally friendly to just get eat soy directly, rather than eat meat, because animals are very inefficient at converting food they eat to food that people can eat [2].

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/soy [2]: https://awellfedworld.org/feed-ratios/

Denmark imports 1650000 metric tons soya from south america yearly to feed to animals.

quick search for Beef (carcass weight) per month, international trade with the USA, for Dec. 2021, shows Canada, Mexico as number one and two, but Brazil as a close number three. In that month and year, the trade with Australia is very low.

It is a recent change:

In January 2022 alone, Brazilian beef imports registered a more than 500% increase.

Record high U.S. beef prices and drought-impacted supplies in Australia, where the U.S. would otherwise source beef, have also contributed to growing imports of processing-grade beef from Brazil

https://www.beefmagazine.com/news/us-beef-imports-brazil-sur...

Shipping issues undoubtedly were an issue with Australia.