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To the Editor, We were pleased to see titled, “Life-Cycle Analysis Research Proves Superiority of EU Animal By-Products vs. Plant-Based Ingredients.” As the topic of climate change is top of everyone’s mind, understanding the carbon footprint of feed inputs is very important. As the authors point out in their research, “The carbon footprint country due the different land use country.” This is extremely important in South America is highly associated with Land use change in the U.S. is by 742,000 hectares, while crop land had decreased 3.6 million hectares. U.S. soybean farmers have increased land use The same comparison holds true means farmers are producing more on the land that they have by using modern tools and practices like climate-smart agriculture, enhanced seeds, moisture and GPS-enabled tractors, drones and satellite imagery to produce more soy from the same amount of land, even as they reduce the use of natural resources. As shown above, when comparing the carbon footprint of various sources of soy, footprint than soy purchased from South America (and Europe). The same comparison holds true when comparing U.S. soy to other sources of protein and U.S. soybean oil to other vegetable oils. and is verified as sustainable through the U.S. Soy Sustainability Assurance benchmarked against the European benchmarked with the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform’s Farm Sustainability Assessment 3.0. an excellent resource to evaluate the environmental assessment of feed inputs. your sourcing decisions, please compare the sourcing countries for soy inputs. To learn more about the sustainability of U.S. soy, visit ussoy.org Sincerely, Abby Rinne Director of Sustainability U.S. Soybean Export Council 8 April 2023 Render www.rendermagazine.com
