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How do you justify tearing down the world’s greatest rainforest for agribusiness? Pretend it’s not a rainforest. That appears to be the thinking behind a bill introduced into Brazil’s lower house of Congress in February that proposes removing the state of Mato Grosso from the country’s formally recognized Amazonian region — despite the fact that the Amazon makes up half of the state’s total area. Mato Grosso is already Brazil’s breadbasket, and removing it from the group of nine states that make up what’s known as the Legal Amazon would allow for even greater deforestation to make way for farm…