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minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years 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.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years ago https://ourworldindata.org/soy i’m so glad you used this. you can find this graph there that shows that almost all the soy we feed to animals is the industrial waste from oil production
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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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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.
i’m so glad you used this. you can find this graph there that shows that almost all the soy we feed to animals is the industrial waste from oil production
the vast majority of soy (85%) is pressed for oil.
what does this have to do with what we are discussing, or how many mice were killed for that bun?