<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Leigh Meyers</b> <<a href="mailto:leighcmeyers@gmail.com">leighcmeyers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Alarming new figures show that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest-the world's<br>biggest tropical forest-has accelerated. Booming agriculture, especially soya growing,<br>is one of the main culprits<br><br></blockquote>
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The title of this seems misleading though. As someone
who is emphatically not a vegetarian,I seem to remember that the
overwhelming majority of soybeans grown are used as animal feed. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">98% of soybean meal is used for animal feed.<br>
<a href="http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/SoybeansOilCrops/background.htm">http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/SoybeansOilCrops/background.htm</a></p>
A small amount of soy is sold whole as nuts for human consumption, seed
or other uses - I think about 5%. So 98%of 95% goes
for animal feed.<br>
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A political argument could be made that SOME vegetarians
are part of a completely unrelated political problem. But they
certainly are not responsible for deforestation in Brazil to
plant soybeans.<br>-- <br>Please
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