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That’s entirely incorrect.
Soybeans are about 80% meal and 20% oil. They don’t grow special beans just for oil, their components are separated in processing. The ”perfect” soybeans get sold whole, and the rest get processed. Of soybean meal, 97% goes to animal feed and 3% goes to human food products (including soymilk).
From the 20% oil, most goes to human food (margarine, cooking oil, etc), a good chunk goes to biodiesel, and a small sliver goes to industrial oils.
about 17% of all end uses of soy is as oil. in order for that to be true, 85% of the global crop must be processed in an oil press. the industrial waste from that process is most of the soy given to livestock, but cattle still only get about 3% of the total weight of the global crop.
now ask me for my sources.