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[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

so no insects are harmed to produce that for livestock: they were harmed to make soybean oil.

Sorry, this is an accounting trick. The cows are still eating an agricultural product that killed insects, we can’t decide ‘oh, actually that’s entirely for oil’ if the soy meal is also valuable enough to sell and export as a product (about 65% of production, per the wiki article you linked).

There also aren’t any livestock that live entirely off soybean meal; a huge amount of corn is also fed to livestock. So even if you want to do shoddy accounting, they’re not being raised off waste and sunlight. A lot of crops are grown exclusively for livestock consumption.

[-] redfish@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 14 hours ago

even the corn plant is a great example. people don't eat corn leaves, cobs, or stalks, but livestock eat silage made from them.

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