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inasaba@lemmy.ml to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.

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California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.

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California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass. - Inside Climate News
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Forty miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Southern California’s Imperial Valley, the Brandt Company cattle ranch is the largest single point source of methane emissions in the state, releasing more of that greenhouse gas than any oil or gas well, refinery or landfill.  The 643-acre feedlot is home to 139,000 beef cattle, according to […]
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    Abbott 85% of the global soy crop is pressed for oil for human use: livestock are mostly fed the industrial waste from that process

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      Brazil sells soy mostly to feed pigs and chickens in China

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        pigs and chickens are mostly fed soy cake: the industrial waste from making soybean oil

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          Going to copy my comment from above:

          Soybean meal is not a byproduct of soybean production either. It’s the main source of revenue

          When we look at the most common extraction method for soybean oil (using hexane solvents), soybean meal is still the driver of demand

          However, soybean meal is the main driving force for soybean oil production due to its significant amount of productivity and revenues

          […]

          soybean meal and hulls contribute to over 60% of total revenues, with meal taking the largest portion of over 59% of total revenue

          https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0926669017305010

          This is even more true of other methods like expelling which is still somewhat commonly used

          Moreover, soybean meal is the driving force for the whole process [expelling oil from soy] because it provides over 70% of the total revenue for soy processing by expelling

          https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/9/5/87

          Even other extraction methods being explored in research as well don’t have soybean oil as the main driver of demand

          From the results, soybean oil makes up around 24% of total revenues; revenue from insoluble fiber makes over 70%, due to the large amounts produced throughout the process. [of Enzyme-Assisted Aqueous Extraction]

          https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jasreen-Sekhon/publication/330375817_Economic_Feasibility_of_Soybean_Oil_Production_by_Enzyme-Assisted_Aqueous_Extraction_Processing/links/5c49d531a6fdccd6b5c586b6/Economic-Feasibility-of-Soybean-Oil-Production-by-Enzyme-Assisted-Aqueous-Extraction-Processing.pdf

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            it’s the bulk of the weight of the bean, but it isn’t the reason it’s grown

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            Soybean meal is not a byproduct of soybean production either. It’s the main source of revenue

            these aren’t mutually exclusive

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            Hexane extraction is the most common method used in the industry to produce soybean oil due to its high oil recovery and lower production cost. With the demands of soybean oil increasing either in food or industrial applications, expansion plans are considered by many companies to increase production capacity.

            I can’t believe how dishonestly you are trying to cherrypick those papers

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      More than three-quarters (77%) of soy is used as feed for livestock.

      https://ourworldindata.org/soy#more-than-three-quarters-of-global-soy-is-fed-to-animals

      Soybean meal is not a byproduct of soybean production either. It’s the main source of revenue

      When we look at the most common extraction method for soybean oil (using hexane solvents), soybean meal is still the driver of demand

      However, soybean meal is the main driving force for soybean oil production due to its significant amount of productivity and revenues

      […]

      soybean meal and hulls contribute to over 60% of total revenues, with meal taking the largest portion of over 59% of total revenue

      https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0926669017305010

      This is even more true of other methods like expelling which is still somewhat commonly used

      Moreover, soybean meal is the driving force for the whole process [expelling oil from soy] because it provides over 70% of the total revenue for soy processing by expelling

      https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/9/5/87

      Even other extraction methods being explored in research as well don’t have soybean oil as the main driver of demand

      From the results, soybean oil makes up around 24% of total revenues; revenue from insoluble fiber makes over 70%, due to the large amounts produced throughout the process. [of Enzyme-Assisted Aqueous Extraction]

      https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jasreen-Sekhon/publication/330375817_Economic_Feasibility_of_Soybean_Oil_Production_by_Enzyme-Assisted_Aqueous_Extraction_Processing/links/5c49d531a6fdccd6b5c586b6/Economic-Feasibility-of-Soybean-Oil-Production-by-Enzyme-Assisted-Aqueous-Extraction-Processing.pdf

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        it is the bulk of the weight of the bean, but that isn’t the reason it’s grown

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        Soybean meal is not a byproduct of soybean production either. It’s the main source of revenue

        these aren’t mutually exclusive

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          In the context of production, a by-product is the "output from a joint production process that is minor in quantity and/or net realizable value (NRV) when compared with the main products".[2]

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By-product

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            soy oil punches way above it’s weight in value.

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        Hexane extraction is the most common method used in the industry to produce soybean oil due to its high oil recovery and lower production cost. With the demands of soybean oil increasing either in food or industrial applications, expansion plans are considered by many companies to increase production capacity.

        I can’t believe how dishonestly you are trying to cherrypick those papers

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          That’s much more cherrypicked quote ignoring the “however” part about how soybean meal being the main driver of production

          It’s quite a thing to claim someone else is cherrypicing and ignore critical context. I don’t see much point in continuing this discussion if that’s how things are going to go

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            I pulled that straight out of the abstract

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