When I did some research on dairy alternatives a few years ago, oat milk had the least environmental impact overall. Almonds are terrible due to massive water usage needed to grow the almond.
Oat and soy milk are the most environmentally friendly and yes 95% of the soy that is grown in South America cutting down the amazon goes to feed to cattle.
Soy isn’t a tropical crop, it’s actually farmed pretty heavily in the US as it’s a good rotation crop with corn.
The issue the person above was calling out is in Brazil they also farm a lot of soy to feed the tons of cattle they have. Soy in general isn’t a problematic produce to grow/eat.
Yes I knew all that (except the bit about corn rotation). But presumably nobody is feeding oats to cattle, so there’s less risk that you’ll be inadvertently funding deforestation when you buy them.
Ahh missed what you were getting at, but oats are commonly used for feed too. Basically anything and everything will be used as feed (it’s how we get mad cow disease - cows being fed cows).
When I did some research on dairy alternatives a few years ago, oat milk had the least environmental impact overall. Almonds are terrible due to massive water usage needed to grow the almond.
Yep, almond milk is so bad I hear drinking it sent Chidi Anagonye to the bad place.
Yep:
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks
i want this in per gram of protein
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Oat and soy milk are the most environmentally friendly and yes 95% of the soy that is grown in South America cutting down the amazon goes to feed to cattle.
So, how to know for sure that your culinary soybean didn’t come from the Amazon, given that soy seems to be a tropical crop?
Soy isn’t a tropical crop, it’s actually farmed pretty heavily in the US as it’s a good rotation crop with corn.
The issue the person above was calling out is in Brazil they also farm a lot of soy to feed the tons of cattle they have. Soy in general isn’t a problematic produce to grow/eat.
Yes I knew all that (except the bit about corn rotation). But presumably nobody is feeding oats to cattle, so there’s less risk that you’ll be inadvertently funding deforestation when you buy them.
Ahh missed what you were getting at, but oats are commonly used for feed too. Basically anything and everything will be used as feed (it’s how we get mad cow disease - cows being fed cows).
Did not know that, but it stands to reason.