Annoyed at school.

[steveR]

Emmm... How much soya gets fed to cattle?

Good link further up the thread.....

 

[delilah]

Emmm... How much soya gets fed to cattle?

Put this on here before, just sharing again if anyone needs it for an arsey teacher.

Soya, rainforests and UK livestock: setting the record straight.

We do not import whole soya beans into the UK to feed to our livestock. Rather, we import soya meal, a by-product of producing soya oil for human consumption which would otherwise be thrown away.

Livestock have always been used to transform food unfit for human consumption into nutrient-rich meat and milk.
We have been doing so since the first farmer threw a maggoty apple to the first domesticated pig.
Today we feed a huge range of by-products to our livestock; oil seeds, brewers grains, wheat unfit for baking bread.
All of this is an environmentally sound use of ‘waste’ products.

If you are concerned about rainforest clearance, then there are important steps you can take.
- Check food packet ingredients for soya.
- Purchase rapeseed oil labelled as being grown by UK farmers.
- Use butter and lard, two of the huge range of products we get from those most amazing providers of sustainable food: The cow and the pig.

Save the planet: Shop local, eat British, enjoy a balanced diet.

 

[davieh3350]

Put this on here before, just sharing again if anyone needs it for an arsey teacher.

Soya, rainforests and UK livestock: setting the record straight.

We do not import whole soya beans into the UK to feed to our livestock. Rather, we import soya meal, a by-product of producing soya oil for human consumption which would otherwise be thrown away.

Livestock have always been used to transform food unfit for human consumption into nutrient-rich meat and milk.
We have been doing so since the first farmer threw a maggoty apple to the first domesticated pig.
Today we feed a huge range of by-products to our livestock; oil seeds, brewers grains, wheat unfit for baking bread.
All of this is an environmentally sound use of ‘waste’ products.

If you are concerned about rainforest clearance, then there are important steps you can take.
- Check food packet ingredients for soya.
- Purchase rapeseed oil labelled as being grown by UK farmers.
- Use butter and lard, two of the huge range of products we get from those most amazing providers of sustainable food: The cow and the pig.

Save the planet: Shop local, eat British, enjoy a balanced diet.

Mmmmmhhhh!!! Lard
Proper outside pork fat is to die for!

 

[delilah]

Great poster BUT, a wee bit too American... WTH, haven't we got an indigenous version????

Well, the AHDB have come up with this. I wouldn't recommend it for use in school though, the words say 5% but the picture says 50%, it will just confuse the kiddies.

 

[steveR]

Well, the AHDB have come up with this. I wouldn't recommend it for use in school though, the words say 5% but the picture says 50%, it will just confuse the kiddies.

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Is it right....?

I agree, it doesn't really suffer from clarity does it! A start...

 

[delilah]

Is it right....?

Don't get me started lol.

 

[SteveHants]

Is it right....?

I agree, it doesn't really suffer from clarity does it! A start...

4.9%, with cropping sitting at 5.1%.

Edited to add: That could be the EU figures, actually......

 

[primmiemoo]

Mmmmmhhhh!!! Lard
Proper outside pork fat is to die for!

It's good for the brain. (Obviously not in gluttonous quantities.)

Far, far better for humans than palm oil.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Put this on here before, just sharing again if anyone needs it for an arsey teacher.

Soya, rainforests and UK livestock: setting the record straight.

We do not import whole soya beans into the UK to feed to our livestock. Rather, we import soya meal, a by-product of producing soya oil for human consumption which would otherwise be thrown away.

Livestock have always been used to transform food unfit for human consumption into nutrient-rich meat and milk.
We have been doing so since the first farmer threw a maggoty apple to the first domesticated pig.
Today we feed a huge range of by-products to our livestock; oil seeds, brewers grains, wheat unfit for baking bread.
All of this is an environmentally sound use of ‘waste’ products.

If you are concerned about rainforest clearance, then there are important steps you can take.
- Check food packet ingredients for soya.
- Purchase rapeseed oil labelled as being grown by UK farmers.
- Use butter and lard, two of the huge range of products we get from those most amazing providers of sustainable food: The cow and the pig.

Save the planet: Shop local, eat British, enjoy a balanced diet.

Edit: and don't feed your stock soya or palm oil or buy products derived from these, and reduce chemical inputs.

Saying if we didn't buy it it would get thrown away means it should be free.

 

[SteveHants]

Edit: and don't feed your stock soya or palm oil or buy products derived from these, and reduce chemical inputs.

Saying if we didn't buy it it would get thrown away means it should be free.

That is another point that I've made in this particular argument - ruminants don't "need" soya, it is just convenient. If soy meal were to vanish overnight, we'd keep on growing sheep and cows without it.