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      6 months ago

      If you had bothered to go to the link,

      Ed is quoting some pretty misleading statistics to support your point. if this is the best that you have, you might want to reconsider your position.

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          6 months ago

          about 85% of all soybeans are pressed for oil for human uses. but a soybean is only about 20% oil altogether. that leaves 69% of the soybeans as industrial waste. feeding that industrial waste to animals is actually conserving resources.

          so it’s not even true that the land used to make food for animals isn’t used to make food for people: it’s the same land.

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              6 months ago

              Every part of a soybean can be made for human uses

              sure, but there are not enough people who want to eat soycake for the amount of oil that we produce. so giving it to animals is as good a use as any.

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              6 months ago

              cattle farming is in and of itself the single largest driver of Amazon deforestation.

              what does this have to do with what we are discussing, or how many mice were killed for that bun?

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              6 months ago

              the vast majority of soy production is being used to raise animals for food, because that’s how the economics works.

              the vast majority of soy (85%) is pressed for oil.