The irony of protein corporations
The irony of protein corporations As I’ve noted many times before, including in Soy 101 , grass-fed/pasture based grass finished cattle doesn’t eat much if any soy, and grass-fed/feed lot grain-finished cattle eats very little soy (largely husks in the form of pellets). This recent paper, The Rise of Meat Substitute Consumption and its Impact on the U.S. Soybean Industry , from Purdue University reaffirms this second point about conventional US beef production. As noted in this paper: “…The total amount of feed excluding harvested forages fed to beef cattle equals approximately 64.5 million tons in 2019 in the U.S. Roughly 57% of this amount came from corn and only roughly 4% was soy-related ingredients…” The researcher’s analysis, based on certain assumptions, goes on to note that plant based and especially cell-Ag proteins increase the markets for soybean since soy isolates are used in many of the plant based products and soy hydrolysate is the most available source of amino a