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THREAD on recent "evidence" based dig at soy milk by @SusFoodTrust.
Didn't plan on responding but media is blowing it up. The claim that soy milk is worse than dairy milk is apparently based on:
"published current evidence, based on peer reviewed journals"
Let's unpack that.
Didn't plan on responding but media is blowing it up. The claim that soy milk is worse than dairy milk is apparently based on:
"published current evidence, based on peer reviewed journals"
Let's unpack that.
Note the 2 authors, we'll come back to that.
1. A switch to an animal free farming system would use LESS arable land.
2. Only 6% of soy grown goes to human food
3. Tropical deforestation for soy is largely for pigs and chickens in EU and China, not for human consumption.
1. A switch to an animal free farming system would use LESS arable land.
2. Only 6% of soy grown goes to human food
3. Tropical deforestation for soy is largely for pigs and chickens in EU and China, not for human consumption.
The (Young, 2017) source, which is mainly used for the bold claims media ran with, just link back to a @SusFoodTrust blog post by the same author. Is that what we call peer reviewed credible evidence/citations now?
The methods are also horrible. They compared the amount of soy milk you can make from a kilogram of soy beans with the amount of milk produced by cows fed some soy along with other foods too.
Dr. Justine Butler mentions this in a piece for @PlantBasedNews https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/-study-cows-milk-better-than-soy-no-sense
Dr. Justine Butler mentions this in a piece for @PlantBasedNews https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/-study-cows-milk-better-than-soy-no-sense
Some very basic concepts of *why* soy is grown, where the value is, and how to estimate a feed conversion rate are elementary mistakes in this paper.
https://twitter.com/NicholasDCarter/status/1223312474675601409?s=19
But why would those basic points matter when there's other motives?
https://twitter.com/NicholasDCarter/status/1223312474675601409?s=19
But why would those basic points matter when there's other motives?
Surely there's at least a conflict of interest listed?
Nope.
Nope.
I know technically being a cattle and sheep farmer isn't a conflict of interest necessarily, but financial motives of some sort are still there.
Well at least there's another author without bias. Wait...
There's tons of peer reviewed papers showing the impacts of dairy farming vs. alternatives. Oat is my go-to.
It's clear they needed a story to try to make people forget the 2018 study by Poore & Nemecek based on almost 40,000 farms, in 119 countries:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987
It's clear they needed a story to try to make people forget the 2018 study by Poore & Nemecek based on almost 40,000 farms, in 119 countries:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987
