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Meat production requires a magnitude more soy (in raw materials) to produce the same output as e.g. tofu/tempeh/soy milk production.
by kuschku 6y ago
Meat production requires a magnitude more soy (in raw materials) to produce the same output as e.g. tofu/tempeh/soy milk production.
- bkovacev 6y agoyou're absolutely right - preparing a high quality beef meal takes a lot more than just processing soy, but what I was aiming at was that we will replace one mass consumption with the other, just like we always do and that may mask the problem but I believe it won't solve it. I could be wrong though.
- MayeulC 6y agoThe issue is not judt the extra procesding cost. I haven't ran the numbers, but parent hinted at a cow needing to eat, say, 10 Kg of soy per Kg of meat produced, while you could have just eaten the soy directly. Meat production uses a lot of land to produce food for your food, that's why it's so inneficient. Instead you could just use a tiny fraction of that land, and grow enough food for everyone.
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- croon 6y ago> but what I was aiming at was that we will replace one mass consumption with the other, just like we always do and that may mask the problem but I believe it won't solve it You're comparing two cases of "mass production" without any quantifier. Beef has an over 15 times larger carbon footprint compared to tofu. https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food So sure, if everyone switches we would substitute one mass production for another, but we could feed 15 times as many people (all else equal).
- spiderfarmer 6y agoA large part of cattle feed soy is based on leftovers from the food industry.
- littlecosmic 6y agoor is the soy oil a way to make more money off of animal feed?
- morituri 6y agoIt's the other way around. According to the article, 77% of soy production goes to animal feed.