Isn the growing of soy responsible for massive deforestation in Latin America and elsewhere?
Actually, yes– but what you are not often told is that MOST OF THIS SOY IS GROWN TO FEED ANIMALS WHICH ARE GOING TO BE SLAUGHTERED FOR MEAT, MOSTLY IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE!! Increasingly, deforestation is being caused also by soy,corn, and palm oil grown for bio-fuel (for the same market). (More on deforestation for biofuel. Another excellent article.) From ourfood.com, a German database of food and related sciences: “Soy and feed: According to Jörg Michael Greef from the German from the Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtscaft. The world production of soy is 220 million tons. Germany imports 40 million tons. Three million tons are used for the production of edible oil and other applications. The main core of 37 millions tons are transformed in animal feed. Soy farms built monocultures in USA, Argentina and Brazil, where they invade the tropical forest and savannahs. Centralised animal breeding, depending on soy are an environmental false step. Palm oil: According to the Environm
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