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minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months ago animals eat lots of our crops eg 80% of the worlds soy. the vast majority of the soy eaten by animals is the waste product from soybean oil production. that’s a conservation of resources, and it’s a good thing.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agohttps://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Global-soy-production-to-end-use.png
minus-squareRyan@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoSo your data set shows 76% used for animals and 4% for industry. That’s very similar to the figures I referred to.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoyou can see that the vast majority of the uses are from soy meal or soy cake. that’s the industrial waste from making soybean oil. exactly as I said.
the vast majority of the soy eaten by animals is the waste product from soybean oil production. that’s a conservation of resources, and it’s a good thing.
do you have a reference for this?
https://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Global-soy-production-to-end-use.png
So your data set shows 76% used for animals and 4% for industry. That’s very similar to the figures I referred to.
you can see that the vast majority of the uses are from soy meal or soy cake. that’s the industrial waste from making soybean oil. exactly as I said.