Comments on: Soynot Green?

By: Vegan marketing

Vegan marketing — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:17:38 +0000

I love soybeans we usually cook soybeans. My kids loves to drink soyamilk and they found it very dilicious. So stop from planting soybeans. .-= Vegan marketing´s last blog ..Vegan Mainstream Twitter Updates for 2009-11-05 =-.

By: Ulrich Daniels

Ulrich Daniels — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:26:27 +0000

Well, I live in Venezuela. Here the government doesn’t give import licenses nor $$ for imports which are not necessary.
They grow quite an amount of soy here – with increasing tendency. They have a lot of land which was property of some ultrarich Venezuelans living in Caracas and Miami who never used it. The Ministery of Agriculture buys such lands forcibly and puts them to work with Cooperatives. It works well. No forrest suffers.

By: Citlali

Citlali — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:50:50 +0000

Well said, Drew. The two environmentalists accusing you of hypocrisy, what do they think the pigs are fed? air?

No. Animals are fed soy (along with other environmentally devastating crops like corn, like u said). We grow 17 times more soy just to indulge in a carnivorous diet!

It has to do with the 10% rule. The average adult human burns about 2,000 calories per day, just living his or her life. We use almost all the calories that we consume to move around, breathe, and do everyday tasks. The same is true of farmed animals. For every pound of food that they are fed, only 10% of the calories are returned in the form of edible flesh. This is why, it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of edible animal flesh. It’s also why livestock is fed half the world’s grain. According to the USDA and the United Nations, using an acre of land to raise cattle for slaughter yields 20 pounds of usable protein. That same acre would yield 356 pounds of protein if soybeans were grown for human consumption only and directly-—more than 17 times as much.

So the one sure fire way to combat soy-associated deforestation is to look at the data and stand up against the meat-industry.

Interesting discussion in the UK Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/famine/story/0,12128,865087,00.htm

By: Harry Hebert

Harry Hebert — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:58:59 +0000

Well, I like soy products. I switched to powdered instant soymilk which is not delicious, but okay. I’m glad its not delicious because otherwise I would drink it like water. The sliced tofu cheese makes a good cheese toast for my breakfast. If some choose to destroy forests to plant more soybeans, that’s their bad..not mine. There is more than enough acreage enough for soybeans if the farmers would not feed all of the production to animals designated as future meat.
Knives may be used to cut vegetables or kill people. In either event, the knife is not at fault ever. It seems that those who either cannot or will not connect the dots hunt for any excuse to fault veganism lest they be required to think things through.
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