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there's nothing wrong with soy itself but growing it at the scale we do is bad for the environment. most soy grown globally is used to feed livestock though so
by yungporko 3y ago
there's nothing wrong with soy itself but growing it at the scale we do is bad for the environment. most soy grown globally is used to feed livestock though so if we would just stop that and grow it for ourselves, it wouldn't be so much of an issue.
- rsynnott 3y agoThere's really nothing _inherent_ to soy that makes it bad for the environment; in fact as a nitrogen fixing plant it's, all else being equal, on the environmentally friendly side (you don't need as much fertiliser). However, for practical purposes, a lot of soy production is environmentally unfriendly, due to deforestation largely in Brazil. Soy produced in the US and China (the major non-former-forest-oriented producers) is pretty environmentally friendly, certainly moreso than any animal protein production. However, as you say, it mostly goes to livestock feed anyway.