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[โ€“] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's worth noting 77% of the world's soy goes to animal feed. Only 5% of soy goes to soy bean products like tofu, soy milk, etc.

https://ourworldindata.org/soy

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Then, 90% of that feed gets used by the animals to walk around, fart, and generally stay alive until they get slaughtered. Essentially, 70% of the soy crops gets wasted on breeding animals to suffer.