But it’s not humans who are eating those soybeans from the rainforest—the beans are processed into animal feed and shipped off to dairy, hog, and chicken farms and to cattle feedlots. If we ate these beans directly instead of funneling them through the “protein factory in reverse” of animal agriculture, we’d be able to grow enough on far less land.28 Eating soyfoods doesn’t destroy the Amazon, it helps save it.
