• Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPM
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    1 month ago

    Oat and soy milk are the most environmentally friendly and yes 95% of the soy that is grown in South America cutting down the amazon goes to feed to cattle.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      So, how to know for sure that your culinary soybean didn’t come from the Amazon, given that soy seems to be a tropical crop?

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        1 month ago

        Soy isn’t a tropical crop, it’s actually farmed pretty heavily in the US as it’s a good rotation crop with corn.

        The issue the person above was calling out is in Brazil they also farm a lot of soy to feed the tons of cattle they have. Soy in general isn’t a problematic produce to grow/eat.

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          1 month ago

          Yes I knew all that (except the bit about corn rotation). But presumably nobody is feeding oats to cattle, so there’s less risk that you’ll be inadvertently funding deforestation when you buy them.

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            1 month ago

            Ahh missed what you were getting at, but oats are commonly used for feed too. Basically anything and everything will be used as feed (it’s how we get mad cow disease - cows being fed cows).