• @[email protected]English
      -13•5 months ago

      Did you know that soybean oil is the first cause of deforestation in the Amazon? It’s not a story vegans would tell you though

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
        18•5 months ago

        I didn’t. I thought cattle ranching was the number one cause, and then palm oil second.

        • @PsychologicalCannabisEnglish
          9•5 months ago

          This is exactly what I read on two different papers. One of them being this

          Not a single mention of soybean oil

          Edit: soy is included but still not even close to cattle ranching and the small scale farming also includeds palm oil and sugarcane

          • McKeeEnglish
            8•5 months ago

            Even funnier, is that the economic driving force of the soy industry is soybean meal for animal feeds compared to soybean oil.

            Based on the productivities of soybean oil and soybean meal, revenues from soybean oil and soybean meal are ~23% and ~77% respectively. Though the oil expelling process is used to produce oil, the soybean meal is actually the driving force for the whole production system.

            According to https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/9/5/87

          • @[email protected]English
            2•5 months ago

            It makes no sense to grow soybeans on land that was previously a rain forest. Soybeans require loose, well drained soil, basically the opposite of rain forest.

          • @[email protected]English
            -17•5 months ago

            Yeah, “papers”, right. More like “vegan propaganda” because PETA wants to keep making soy burgers for vegans without being held accountable