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May as well buy burgers in the US, since you already paid for most of it through taxes! (lemmy.world)
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[–] commie 1 points 2 years ago

a soybean is only about 20% oil. if 10% of the end uses of American soybeans is oil that means a total of 50% of it is crushed for oil. The remaining 40% is turned into "soy meal" that would otherwise be wasted if we didn't feed it to animals.