Tag: amazon rainforest
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How Eating Meat Increases Demand for Soybeans and Threatens the Amazon
by Kristina Chew More and more of the world’s farmlands are being used to grow soybeans. It’s not to meet the needs of tofu, tempeh and miso lovers (though consumption of these has been on the rise) but of meat eaters. Since the 1960s, soybeans have been cultivated predominantly to produce soybean meal, one part of which can be mixed with…