
…omplicated than you may think. It’s true that approximately 480,000 hectares of land (equivalent to about 960,000 football fields) are deforested every year to enable the production of soy in major soy-producing countries. However, the vast majority of this soy is used to feed pork, poultry and dairy cows in response to the massive global demand for meat and dairy products. Meanwhile, only a small portion of this soy is used to make soy milk. To that end, converting forest to pastures for beef cattle is responsible for destroying 2.71 million hectares of tropical forest each year in onl…