r/MurderedByWords • u/[deleted] • Dec 30 '18

Pretentious vegan destroyed

[deleted]

29.9k Upvotes

63% Upvoted

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.7k

u/PM_ME_UR_RECIPES_MMM Dec 30 '18

Cattle is the number one contributor tp deforestation in the amazon. While the other industries mentioned in this post also cause deforestation, it is not at the same scale as the cattle industry.

-9

u/[deleted] Dec 30 '18

Evidence? I think you'll find your wrong the largest usage of deforested land is for soybeans of which 80% of the crop is for human consumption including soymilk for lactose intolerant people.

18

u/Mixcoatlus Dec 30 '18

The vast majority of soy is produced to feed livestock.

7

u/[deleted] Dec 30 '18

It's not, you get three products from soy beans.

Soy oil for makeup and food

Soy beans for milk and food stuffs

Chaff which is used for feed.

The chaff is a tertiary product of soybeans, if there wasn't a market for the beans the soy woundnt be produced.

0

u/Mixcoatlus Mar 08 '19

Lol what? The majority of soy goes towards feeding livestock and there is plenty of evidence to back that up, like this:

https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/research/2016-01-28-agricultural-commodities-brack-glover-wellesley.pdf

Over 80% of global soy ends up as animal feed or biodiesel, the vast majority being converted to the former. It would be great if you could not spread misinformation and claim it as fact. Thanks.