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The vast majority of soy production is for animal feed. By diverting that directly to feeding people, you eliminate an entire trophic level. Edit: Failed to me
by Forbo 6y ago
The vast majority of soy production is for animal feed. By diverting that directly to feeding people, you eliminate an entire trophic level.
Edit: Failed to mention that a lot of deforestation is done to facilitate the growth of soy. Take for example the Amazon.
- moltar 6y agoYeah, and we shouldn’t feed animals soy. I’m for that 100%. So we should fight for that. If everyone stops eating meat and starts eating soy we won’t be growing much less of it. We just transfer the problem from one place to another.
- actuator 6y agoNot if you remove the inefficient conversion in the middle. The whole argument is, cattle is inefficient conversion of plant based sources into meat.[1] If instead, we just eat the plant based sources, we would need to grow less of them. Also, we don't really need to restrict ourselves to soy, there are other plant based foods to eat. There are cultures which are dominated by vegetarian food, so we don't even have a lack of recipes to cook. [1] can be biased: https://impossiblefoods.com/mission/lca-update-2019/ https://impossiblefoods.com/mission/lca-update-2019/