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What is your solution to the problem in the world you're the most vocal about? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Browsing social media, it’s apparent that people are quick to point out problems in the world, but what I see less often are suggestions for how to solve them. At best, I see vague ideas that might solve one issue but introduce new ones, which are rarely addressed.

Simply stopping the bad behaviour rarely is a solution in itself. The world is not that simple. Take something like drug addiction. Telling someone to just stop taking drugs is not a solution.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The soy that's fed to pigs is almost entirely the byproduct of pressing soy for soybean oil. about 85% of the soybean crop is pressed for oil. if we didn't feed the byproduct to livestock, it would just be industrial waste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd challenge that. The whole bean is edible by humans. Tofu is literally just the protein of soy beans without the oil and the startch. I'm sure, if we wanted to, we could just make tofu or TVP out of soy meal.

I also just dislike this "it's a byproduct" argument. It's like how whey powder is a "byproduct" of of cheese making. It's not a good argument. We could also do with less soy oil in the world anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but we DO make tofu and tvp. and they have higher profits per pound than animal feed. but we produce far too much soybean oil for the amount of byproduct people want to consume. giving it to livestock makes sense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It makes sense because we don't eat enough of the soy and TVP. And we also stuff soy oil is tons of shit. I'm not saying it's an easy problem to solve, but it all comes down to our over-consumption and refusal to do anything even mildly inconvenient. Eat more whole foods and less meat and a lot of that solves itself.