in order to extract that much oil, we must press about 85% of the global crop of soybeans. the vast majority if the soy fed to livestock is the industrial waste from that process.
I’ve already told you that we can produce plant-based meat or soy protein for other uses from that, which you conceded, and you still call it “industrial waste”. Why are you knowingly spreading misinformation?
If the rest of the plant would be wasted, it would be more economical to just grow another plant that’s more efficient for oil production (canola, sunflower), not soybeans which are incidentally the crop highest in protein.
I’ve already told you that we can produce plant-based meat or soy protein for other uses from that, which you conceded, and you still call it “industrial waste”. Why are you knowingly spreading misinformation?
not only can we do that: we DO that. but there frankly isn’t enough human use for that, so it would be wasted if we didn’t feed it to animals.
If the rest of the plant would be wasted, it would be more economical to just grow another plant that’s more efficient for oil production (canola, sunflower), not soybeans which are incidentally the crop highest in protein.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/area-per-tonne-oil
It’s not grown in such quantities because it’s essential but simply because there’s demand for the extra protein from factory farms right now.
soybeans are grown for nutrient fixation in rotation with corn. they’re more of a soil crop than an oil crop.
https://www.veterinariadigital.com/en/articulos/importance-of-corn-in-animal-production/
“We need animal agriculture because we need to grow the feed plants to grow more feed plants for animal agriculture”
We’ve come full circle.
this phrase never appears in your source or anywhere else in this thread. what are you quoting?
It’s your argument put in another way
no, it’s a strawman of my argument.
this can be true while, at the same time, soybean oil’s byproduct is soy meal that would be wasted if it weren’t fed to animals.
I’ve already addressed that argument above.
saying “i’ve already addressed it” is a rhetorical trick to avoid admitting it’s true.
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if you don’t know what crop rotation is, you don’t belong in any discussion about agriculture.
i am doing no such thing. i’m simply pointing out your lies.