Soy Soyboys are destroying the Amazon rainforest and causing global warming

[Darth Cialis]

• Recent data released by the Brazilian government’s Prodes deforestation satellite monitoring system found that 220,000 square kilometers in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes were deforested between 2006 and 2017.
• Roughly 10 percent of that land was then used to grow soy, a native vegetation conversion of at least 21,000 square kilometres (with over 17,000 of that in the Cerrado), according to the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Global Canopy’s Trase platform, which analyze commodities supply chains.
• Clearing native vegetation releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, while crop plantations store less CO2 – a one-two punch hindering efforts to curb climate change. About 140,000 square kilometers of Cerrado were lost from 2006-2017, releasing 210 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (CO2e).
• The majority of Brazil’s soy is produced for export. So experts say the best way to protect the Cerrado under the Bolsonaro administration will be for commodities companies and NGOs to create market incentives. Plans now under consideration suggest momentum is building to protect Brazil’s most vulnerable ecoregion.

Brazil soy trade linked to widespread deforestation, carbon emissions

Analysis of new satellite data released by the Brazilian government links international soy exports to major deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado.

news.mongabay.com

 

[Guest2]

It's said that one man eats 99% of that soy grown

 

[DaveBuster]

inb4 "it's for cattle feed!" - no! It's for oil predominantly ("vegetable oil" as they laughably call it) and then the "soymeal" left over (the waste) is used as cattle feed.
If you want to save the environment, you should be eating grass-fed beef, lamb, bison, etc. Same if you want to save animal lives.

 

[Dionysus]

@Brazilian Sigma thoughts?

 

[Deleted member 1252]

Soy milk is the devils piss.

 

[MarriedAndLookin4Fun]

It's always the soyboys and the jews

 

[FrothySolutions]

inb4 "it's for cattle feed!" - no! It's for oil predominantly ("vegetable oil" as they laughably call it) and then the "soymeal" left over (the waste) is used as cattle feed.
If you want to save the environment, you should be eating grass-fed beef, lamb, bison, etc. Same if you want to save animal lives.

What if we just eat the grass instead? I'm not interested in saving the environment and don't know anything about the environment, but based on what little I know, eating the grass sounds like the best way.

 

[Darth Cialis]

I just got soy isolate protein because I got acne while using whey I guess I am partly guilty tbh tbh.

What if we just eat the grass instead? I'm not interested in saving the environment and don't know anything about the environment, but based on what little I know, eating the grass sounds like the best way.

Not enough protein.

 

[InMyCellInHell]

Nothing out of the ordinary for soyciety

 

[Deleted member 2686]

damn, looks like inceltears are a cause of global warming

guess we gotta raise this issue to the UN

 

[needsolution]