[p0wn]

Look up monoculture and what it's doing to the land. Destroying it.

Why are we subsidizing soy crops anyways? Soy is terrible for your health. It contains loads of phytoestrogen and allergens. We are reliant on exporting the crop because it's not a part of the typical american diet. It's just bad news altogether.

[AlexandrB]

What's wrong with phytoestrogen? Despite the name it's not the same thing as estrogen found in humans and it doesn't always trigger the same response in your body. The research[1][2] seems overall mildly positive on the effects of soy and phytoestrogen on health. At worst it's a wash.

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/soy/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9888630/

[philips]

I agree about monocultures being an issue in industrial farming.

However, I am skeptical of all of the claims about soy particularly if you eat it as only part of your diet.

That said Beyond Meat doesn't contain soy. Impossible does though.

https://www.beyondmeat.com/products/beyond-beef

[Spooky23]

Processed legumes and coconut oil has its own issues.

[__float]

That doesn't really seem completely related to the topic at hand. Besides, if we _were_ producing more things like Impossible foods that _did_ use soy, then we wouldn't need to export it as much?

I'm not proposing all production in the US switch to soy crops, and your argument seems pretty disingenuous to me

[wumpus]

> Besides, if we _were_ producing more things like Impossible foods that _did_ use soy,

Impossible Foods is a drop in the bucket compared to tofu, but, there are too many calories of soy grown in the US to feed them all to humans. That's also true for corn.