"More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh"
> fields of ... corn that are the issue
Corn crop is mainly used for biofuels (40%) and as animal feed (36%)
> large fields of soy
https://ourworldindata.org/soy
"More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh"
> fields of ... corn that are the issue
Corn crop is mainly used for biofuels (40%) and as animal feed (36%)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-c...
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/corn-industries-susta...
U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...
> We may need less to feed cattle then, but then we will need to produce more plant protein for direct human consumption or even bioreactors
Not at all.
If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets