Soy and the Amazon

Soy is increasingly appearing in the headlines; for all the wrong reasons. Some have suggested that a diet heavy in soy products can cause all sorts of health problems - but doesn't everything these days? Supposed health issues aside; if you consume a lot of soy - and most of us do in some form as it's added to so many products, have you asked yourself where it comes from? Deforestation of the Amazon is something most of us are familiar with, but usually in relation to logging and cattle grazing. Did you know that Brazil is now one of the world's largest exporters of soy beans? And guess where most of the crop comes from - the Amazon area. ...

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