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A quick online search for “soy vs dairy milk environment” will give you plenty of comparative environmental research to digest. Growing food far away from wher
by csnover 6y ago
A quick online search for “soy vs dairy milk environment” will give you plenty of comparative environmental research to digest.
Growing food far away from where it is consumed is an environmental disaster regardless of what that food is. The ScienceDaily release you linked doesn’t say anything about the relative impact of soy versus dairy milk, it simply quantifies the transportation cost of Brazilian production.
Since ~77% of soy is used as animal feed[0], your dairy cow is probably also consuming soy imports, so your dairy milk now combines the negative environmental impact of soy-based feed with the negative environmental impact of animal husbandry and the efficiency losses of feed conversion.
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/soy#more-than-three-quarters-of-global-soy-is-fed-to-animals https://ourworldindata.org/soy#more-than-three-quarters-of-g...
- dillondoyle 6y agoThanks that's the same link I found too! makes me feel slightly better that US is soy country. I never drank milk, even as a kid. But lately I've been doing more dairy and milk actually tastes ok in small quantities and it absorbs protein supplements better. Though if you've never had actual food fresh soy milk it's very very good the store stuff is weak water in comparison.