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it’s a simple question that has nothing to do with me.
it’s a simple question that has nothing to do with me.
how many farmers did they ask for their reasons for planting soybeans?
I have read plenty, (you didn’t think I was looking all this up just today, did you?) and i have told you a story in which the objective facts are indisputable. the only point of disagreement we have is how to interpret those facts, and I have given actual reasoning for my interpretation, while you said “look it up”.
it’s not accurate to say the soy beans are grown for animals at all though. they’re grown for markets and soild health. markets value the oil far higher on a per pound basis than the rest of the bean. I just can’t believe a telling of the story of soybeans that places animal feed so prominently, when it’s literally the industrial waste that is fed to animals.
over 80% of soy is pressed for oil. they press it in an oil press. The byproduct of that process is soy meal or soy cake. The oil is only about 20% of the bean but makes up about half of its crop value. soybeans are grown for oil and because they rotate with corn. they help fixate nitrogen for other crops and they produce oil. The fact that we’re able to also feed the byproduct of the oil production to animals is a conservation of resources.
just up that thread
I don’t think palm rotates with corn, so I don’t believe it would be grown instead of soy beans.
oh? so the owidx chart that shows 70% of all soy by weight being fed to animals as “soy cake” or “soy meal” is outdated? I would happily believe that if you present some evidence.
the vast majority of the soy fed to animals is the byproduct of pressing soybeans for oil.
https://lemmy.zip/comment/11115828
according to the research on water use, hardly any grain goes to cattle first.
You are absolutely wrong.
oof.
the vast majority of the soy fed to animals is the industrial waste from soybean oil production. it’s a conservation of resources, not an expenditure
cattle eat somewhere north of 90% grazed material or so-called “crop seconds” which are parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat. so, for cattle at least, it is true.
don’t rely on poore-nemecek
Florida lets felons vote again.
using a byproduct that would otherwise go to waste is good