Soy isn’t a tropical crop, it’s actually farmed pretty heavily in the US as it’s a good rotation crop with corn.
The issue the person above was calling out is in Brazil they also farm a lot of soy to feed the tons of cattle they have. Soy in general isn’t a problematic produce to grow/eat.
Yes I knew all that (except the bit about corn rotation). But presumably nobody is feeding oats to cattle, so there’s less risk that you’ll be inadvertently funding deforestation when you buy them.
Ahh missed what you were getting at, but oats are commonly used for feed too. Basically anything and everything will be used as feed (it’s how we get mad cow disease - cows being fed cows).
Soy isn’t a tropical crop, it’s actually farmed pretty heavily in the US as it’s a good rotation crop with corn.
The issue the person above was calling out is in Brazil they also farm a lot of soy to feed the tons of cattle they have. Soy in general isn’t a problematic produce to grow/eat.
Yes I knew all that (except the bit about corn rotation). But presumably nobody is feeding oats to cattle, so there’s less risk that you’ll be inadvertently funding deforestation when you buy them.
Ahh missed what you were getting at, but oats are commonly used for feed too. Basically anything and everything will be used as feed (it’s how we get mad cow disease - cows being fed cows).
Did not know that, but it stands to reason.