dumnezero@piefed.social to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 9 days agoOnly half of the calories produced on croplands are available as food for human consumptionmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageOnly half of the calories produced on croplands are available as food for human consumptionmedia.piefed.socialdumnezero@piefed.social to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square36linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agosoy is primarily grown for human consumption. over 4/5 of the global crop is sent to an oil press.
minus-squarecrater2150@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoDo you have any source for that? In the ones I found, it’s more like 4/5 of the soy grown for human consumption is for oil, but human consumption is only 1/5 of the production. See e.g. here https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation#is-our-appetite-for-soy-driving-deforestation-in-the-amazon, the oil production uses 13.2% of the global soy.
soy is primarily grown for human consumption. over 4/5 of the global crop is sent to an oil press.
Do you have any source for that? In the ones I found, it’s more like 4/5 of the soy grown for human consumption is for oil, but human consumption is only 1/5 of the production.
See e.g. here https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation#is-our-appetite-for-soy-driving-deforestation-in-the-amazon, the oil production uses 13.2% of the global soy.