The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
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The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
We need to boost our intake of healthy plant foods and reduce our dependence on animal-based foods.
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.
Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.
It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.
There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.
As people move further away from a meat-based diet, I think the focus will shift to using grains as the central focus of our food supply.
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
I've been seeing more and more Gardein soy chicken and soy beef products lately, and they're pretty darn good.
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