• QuaffPotions@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    That makes no sense. Every part of a soybean can be made for human uses - textured vegetable protein (tvp) is de-fatted soy, for example. 7% of soy is going for human consumption, because that’s how much demand there is for it. Just as the vast majority of soy production is being used to raise animals for food, because that’s how the economics works. You can see the cited study and more in greater detail in this article - which also shows how cattle farming is in and of itself the single largest driver of Amazon deforestation.

    https://ourworldindata.org/soy

    And this article is a primer on feed conversion ratios, which demonstrates why eating plants directly will always be fundamentally more efficient and better for the environment than raising animals for food ever can be.

    https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2022/03/feed-conversion-ratios-help-explain-meats-outsized-climate-impact/

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      11 months ago

      cattle farming is in and of itself the single largest driver of Amazon deforestation.

      what does this have to do with what we are discussing, or how many mice were killed for that bun?

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      11 months ago

      the vast majority of soy production is being used to raise animals for food, because that’s how the economics works.

      the vast majority of soy (85%) is pressed for oil.

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      11 months ago

      Every part of a soybean can be made for human uses

      sure, but there are not enough people who want to eat soycake for the amount of oil that we produce. so giving it to animals is as good a use as any.