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• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If legume farming was destroying the rainforest,

  turns out, a lot of the the deforested amazon is being used to grow soy.

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  • naught@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This was the case, and is certainly problematic. Take it a step further – who or what is consuming that soy? Animal agriculture, by and large. Therefore this is an argument for veganism, or at least reducing consumption.

    greenpeace.org/…/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-…

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the vast majority of the world’s soy (about 85%) is pressed for oil in an oil press for human use. the byproduct of the press is called soy meal or soy cake, and would be a waste product if we didn’t find a use for it. currently, almost all of it goes to feed livestock, (about 70% of the entire crop-weight).

      soybeans are used by people, and we feed the trash to livestock.

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      • naught@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Can you supply a source for this please?

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• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  if less meat is produced (ie less animals are raised for slaughter), then less deforestation will come as a result of the meat industry.

  but just being vegan doesn’t cause this to happen.

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  • naught@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s simple economics. Less demand, less supply.

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      that’s not causal.

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