Great article on reasons to go vegetarian (if anybody needs

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the article. Very interesting reading.

However, we as vegetarians are also responsable for environmental degradation.

I was reading the February issue of National Geographic and they were talking

about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in order to grow soya beans. My

question is this; what can we do to prevent this 'slaughter'? I know that the US

is the largest producer or soya, so one way would be to ensure that one only

purchases soya produced in the US, and ask our shops not to stock soya produced

in Brazil. What other methods could we use?

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I haven't researched this, but I suspect most of the soybeans produced

in Brazil are not going for human consumption, but for animal feed.

Same with most of the corn produced in the world. Also the ocean life

is mined for animal feed.

 

Bryan

 

, Douglas Anderson

<djandersonza wrote:

>

> Thanks for the article. Very interesting reading.

> However, we as vegetarians are also responsable for environmental

degradation. I was reading the February issue of National Geographic

and they were talking about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in

order to grow soya beans. My question is this; what can we do to

prevent this 'slaughter'? I know that the US is the largest producer or

soya, so one way would be to ensure that one only purchases soya

produced in the US, and ask our shops not to stock soya produced in

Brazil. What other methods could we use?

[Guest guest]

" Thanks for the article. Very interesting reading.

However, we as vegetarians are also responsable for environmental

degradation. I was reading the February issue of National Geographic and

they were talking about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in order

to grow soya beans. My question is this; what can we do to prevent this

'slaughter'? I know that the US is the largest producer or soya, so one way

would be to ensure that one only purchases soya produced in the US, and ask

our shops not to stock soya produced in Brazil. What other methods could we

use? "

Is that soy for human consumption that they are growing, or for feeding

animals in the meat/dairy/egg industry. Most of the soy in the world goes

to the latter and is produced with higer pesticide levels because more

poisons are allowed to be fed to animals than are allowed in human food. My

guess is the soy produced there is not fit for human consumption as most

produced in the U.S. is.

 

Veronica

 

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