Since the 1960s, soybeans have been cultivated predominantly to produce soybean meal, one part of which can be mixed with 4 parts of another grain (most often corn) to produce feed for livestock and chickens. This demand for high-quality protein to mix into animal feed is endangering ecosystems like Brazil’s Amazon Basin, home to some of the richest biodiversity of wildlife and fauna in the world and to the cerrado, 1.2 million square miles of savannah that is being converted into farmlands at a fast rate. Read more: care2/causes/were-growing-so-much-soy-the-amazon-basin-is-under-threat-2.html#ixzz2kVkSDut7
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:09:19 +0000