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Corn and soy grown for the purpose of large animal feed exceeds the amount of cropland used directly for human consumption in areas where <20% of calories and protein come from red meat.
it's crazy how much i've learned about soybeans, and never bothered to look into the numbers on corn. you'll forgive me if i look for my own sources though.
what is fed to animals is the industrial waste from the oil processing. which is the comment i made that started your namecalling. i will accept an apology, but i will not tolerate any more insults.
Most of the revenue is the meal. Nobody would grow it for the oil.
Almost half of the oil is used for biodeisel. So even if it were exclusively for the oil (a lie) getting rid of 40% and getting rid of the meat would do more than green fertizer
Also all an attempt at distraction because humans could eat a plant grown there.
i think it's great that you cited a source that shows even as markets fluctuate over time, soybean oil punches far above its weight every year in the value of the crop.
While some of the crop is used directly, more than 85 percent is further processed through crushing into soybean meal and oil. Soybean meal is typically used as an animal feed for its protein content
The meal is the main revenue source and the reason it's grown.
meal is the majority of the weight of the soybean, but oil is about half the value of the soybean while only being 20% of the weight. they don't process soybeans in meal presses: it's processed in oil presses.
almost no soy goes to cattle at all. calling me "paltering" while jumping from one segment of agriculture to another is just hypocritical rhetoric. try addressing the topic instead of characterizing me.
none of your insults have disproven what i said, and all the sources you've cited support what i've been saying.
your posturing doesn't help your case. humbly accepting that you didn't know all the facts about soy (just as i am still learning about corn) would do wonders for your perception though.