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Eating crops directly rather than feeding cows is far more effective than changing fertilizer source.
cows eat a lot of grass, and usually from land that isn’t suitable for crops. the silage they get is mostly parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat.
Paltering.
Corn and soy grown for the purpose of large animal feed exceeds the amount of cropland used directly for human consumption in areas where <20% of calories and protein come from red meat.
almost no soy goes to cattle at all. calling me “paltering” while jumping from one segment of agriculture to another is just hypocritical rhetoric. try addressing the topic instead of characterizing me.
I said red meat. Pork and chicken need to go too, but that’snot as urgent.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/2542095
i didn’t see any allusion to any animal except cattle here. am i reading too quickly?
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your insults don’t change the text.
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none of your insults have disproven what i said, and all the sources you’ve cited support what i’ve been saying.
your posturing doesn’t help your case. humbly accepting that you didn’t know all the facts about soy (just as i am still learning about corn) would do wonders for your perception though.
almost all soy (about 85%) is crushed for oil for human use. the vast majority of what’s fed to animals is the industrial waste from that process.
only 7% is fed directly to animals.
i don’t know the numbers for corn, but i do know that globally, about 2/3 of all crop calories go to people.
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HEY YOUR SOYBEAN FACT SHEET REFLECTS THE GLOBAL NUMBERS REALLY CLOSELY!
https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2021/02/Global-soy-production-to-end-use-763x550.png
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what is fed to animals is the industrial waste from the oil processing. which is the comment i made that started your namecalling. i will accept an apology, but i will not tolerate any more insults.
https://www.iowafarmbureau.com/Article/Relative-Value-of-Soybean-Meal-and-Soybean-Oil
Most of the revenue is the meal. Nobody would grow it for the oil.
Almost half of the oil is used for biodeisel. So even if it were exclusively for the oil (a lie) getting rid of 40% and getting rid of the meat would do more than green fertizer
Also all an attempt at distraction because humans could eat a plant grown there.
humans DO eat the plants grown there.
according to the fao, only 1/5 to 1/4 of the oil goes to industrial uses.
i think it’s great that you cited a source that shows even as markets fluctuate over time, soybean oil punches far above its weight every year in the value of the crop.
i never even suggested it is grown exclusively for oil.
calling me a shill doesn’t change the fact that 85% of all soy is crushed for oil
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your inability to communicate without namecalling says a lot more about you than it does about what i’m saying.
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this is just more namecalling.
meal is the majority of the weight of the soybean, but oil is about half the value of the soybean while only being 20% of the weight. they don’t process soybeans in meal presses: it’s processed in oil presses.
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it speaks to what i’ve been saying this whole time, and your insult and derision does nothing to undermine the facts.
it’s crazy how much i’ve learned about soybeans, and never bothered to look into the numbers on corn. you’ll forgive me if i look for my own sources though.
