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These fortifications come from petrochemical processes, ie from the oil industry, GMOs, and mining. So reducing animal product consumption is hardly an environm

These fortifications come from petrochemical processes, ie from the oil industry, GMOs, and mining. So reducing animal product consumption is hardly an environmental slam dunk. And apart from soy, of which the US is the biggest producer behind the world's renowned environmentally-conscious producer Brazil, vegan milks are not particularly healthy.

strnjrloops 1y ago
Yeah they’re hiding the shift in resource use behind feel good vibes Thermodynamics. We would not get rid of meat production mess, just make a mess somewhere else to distract
aziaziazi 1y ago
> These fortifications come from [...] Many baby's brewage or powder are also skimmed and re-enriched with fortifiants AWA most cereals and salts. Caw milk has more Calcium and Phosphorus but Soy milk gets more Iron, Magnesium, Fibers and Polyunsaturated Fats. You easily get P from lentils and Ca from green vegetables, without fortifiant. Milk protein efficiency is 25% [0], this means with 1kg of soy you either get 380g of soy protein or 95g of whey. Accounting for a bio-disponibility of 0.95 the ratio is still 1/3.8! This is so inefficient that a lot is wasted in US and Brazils : > 97% of U.S. soybean meal goes to feed livestock and poultry. [1] 0: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/protein-efficiency-of-meat-and-dairy-production https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/protein-efficiency-of-mea... 1: https://soygrowers.com/key-issues-initiatives/key-issues/other/animal-ag/ https://soygrowers.com/key-issues-initiatives/key-issues/oth...