SoyMilk Crossroads

By now, you’ve read plenty of information about how great soy is for your health. But did you know that soy may also be great for the millions of people living in hunger all around the world?

Fast-Growing Food

Soybeans are a fast-growing food that can often be grown as a double crop in the same season as another crop in the same field, such as wheat. This means that the owner of the field can double their output and their income. For impoverished areas, this can bring much-needed additional income or food that goes directly from the field to feed the farmer’s family.

Nutritionally Dense

Soybeans take little energy to grow but pack a powerful nutritional punch. They contain fiber, protein, and unsaturated fatty acids. The nutrition that humans gain from eating soybeans is greater than the nutrition we would gain from eating the animals raised on the same amount of land. However, family farm animals can be fed with a soybean crop, and it is an efficient and affordable food for them.

Versatile Crop

The sheer number of products that can be made from soybeans means that there is always a market for farmers to sell their crop. It can be processed into a multitude of food products for humans, used as animal feed, made into fiber, and used in such varied products as cosmetics, fuel, ink, and stain removers.

Gentle on the Earth

A crop full of soybeans does not produce the methane gas and waste products that would be produced by raising animals on the same amount of land. The solid waste from farm cows and pigs can eventually make its way into our water supply, which is very bad news.

A Wise Choice

For many reasons, soybeans are a wise choice for farmers in impoverished areas. While soy may not exactly save the world, it can go a long way toward reducing world hunger and improving the living situations of farmers and their families around the world.