Year
2022
Publisher
White Horse Press
Language
English
Pages
13
ISBN
978-1-91218-664-8
Last Update
04-Nov-2024
Keywords
History ; Environmental Science ; sustainability-discipline ; Botany & Plant Sciences ; Agriculture
The soybean is far more than just a versatile crop whose derivatives serve the protein needs of a meatless diet. One of the world’s most important commodities, soy represents the embodiment of mechanised industrial agriculture and is one of the main actors behind the socioeconomic, political, and ecological transformations of industrial farming in several world regions. Snowballing soybean expansion has mobilised different social actors, with scientific research and the free market playing a decisive role in the grain’s nutritional and industrial ubiquity. Extending this argument, we could say that we live in a world dependent not only on fossil fuels...
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