cattle hardly eat any of the global soy crop. and only about 7% of the global soy crop is fed directly to animals. most of what is fed to livestock is the industrial waste from pressing soybeans for oil
your own last link has a chart that shows soy use. do you see how (almost) every bit of soy fed to livestock is soycake/soy meal? that is the byproduct of pressing soybeans for oil. if we didn’t give it to livestock, it would be industrial waste.
That’s not waste, humans can and do eat it, ie. TVP and we’d probably eat a lot more of it if we cut down on meat consumption as it’s a great source of protein. This is like saying chicken feet are industrial waste because people don’t consume them proportionally to breast, thigh, leg etc. meat.
Even if cattle don’t consume much soy as a percentage they are still less efficient then if we just eat what they eat because of trophic loss. If we want to save more plants and preserve more ecosystems for wild plants we need to reduce the land footprint of our diets, and the best way to do that is to eat less meat.
cattle hardly eat any of the global soy crop. and only about 7% of the global soy crop is fed directly to animals. most of what is fed to livestock is the industrial waste from pressing soybeans for oil
What rubbish. The vast majority of soy feeds animal agriculture. https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/soy-story
…after we extract oil from it
Rather that just being sinical why not try and find a reference? Here’s another one https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation
I’m not being cynical. what I said is true
Reference?
your own last link has a chart that shows soy use. do you see how (almost) every bit of soy fed to livestock is soycake/soy meal? that is the byproduct of pressing soybeans for oil. if we didn’t give it to livestock, it would be industrial waste.
That’s not waste, humans can and do eat it, ie. TVP and we’d probably eat a lot more of it if we cut down on meat consumption as it’s a great source of protein. This is like saying chicken feet are industrial waste because people don’t consume them proportionally to breast, thigh, leg etc. meat.
Even if cattle don’t consume much soy as a percentage they are still less efficient then if we just eat what they eat because of trophic loss. If we want to save more plants and preserve more ecosystems for wild plants we need to reduce the land footprint of our diets, and the best way to do that is to eat less meat.
as you said, people already eat tvp. but not enough of it to prevent 69% of the global crop from becoming industrial waste