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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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...

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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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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Not to mention the amount of water required for operations like this
- Or the amount of rainforest that was burned down to produce soy to feed to those.
  It's just irresponsible to accept meat as a default food option.
  Even if you don't go vegan completely no-one should have it more than once a week. Slowly cutting back now makes it way less expensive and also easier once the regulations happen - and it also shows the politicians that they have people behind them for regulations like that, too
  
  hardly any soy goes to cattle at all
  
  While technically true, more than ¾ of it goes to animal agriculture.
  
  the owid article shows exactly what I said.
  
  Abbott 85% of the global soy crop is pressed for oil for human use: livestock are mostly fed the industrial waste from that process
  
  Brazil sells soy mostly to feed pigs and chickens in China
  
  pigs and chickens are mostly fed soy cake: the industrial waste from making soybean oil
  
  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
  
  it's the bulk of the weight of the bean, but it isn't the reason it's grown
  
  Soybean meal is not a byproduct of soybean production either. It's the main source of revenue
  these aren't mutually exclusive
  
  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
  
  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
  
  it is the bulk of the weight of the bean, but that isn't the reason it's grown
  
  Soybean meal is not a byproduct of soybean production either. It's the main source of revenue
  these aren't mutually exclusive
  
  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
  
  soy oil punches way above it's weight in value.
  
  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
  
  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
  
  I pulled that straight out of the abstract

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