Soy
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes
Catalyst 
the Green Blueprint 
How I Built This
4 statements about Soy, every show
Suplicy: Food agriculture is broken by over-focusing on corn, soy, and wheat
“We have kind of a broken system in a way where most of the efforts go into growing corn, soy, and wheat. That is not necessarily good for people or the environment.”
Lubbershane: 40% of US corn and 30% of soy go toward fuel production
“Like, we already use about 40% of the total
U.S. Corn crop today for making ethanol, for blending into gasoline.
we're now approaching about 30% of soy that's used to produce biodiesel.”
Haspel: Corn and soy dominate due to crop efficiency, not subsidies
“There's a reason that soy and corn came to dominate the landscape, and it's not because of subsidies. It's because corn is the most efficient cereal grass, and soy is the most efficient leg.”
Haspel: Soy Yields Six Million Calories Per Acre, Tripling Other Legumes
“So soy, here in the United States, we can grow about six million calories per acre, and that's less than half of what corn can do, because protein has a lot of plant overhead, so any protein-rich plant is going to generate fewer calories per acre than a crop t…”