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This renewable energy source is actually terrible for the planet

A combine harvester during a soybean harvest in Illinois, October 2025. | Bloomberg via Getty Images The modern soybean is one of the world’s miracle technologies, capable of cheaply, efficiently, and healthfully supplying protein and other nutrients to billions of people. But, unfortunately, we’ve mostly chosen to squander it on the most destructive purposes possible. Soy is America’s second most widely cultivated crop, occupying a land area equivalent to more than 4 percent of the continental US. That’s not (sadly) because we’ve become a nation of tofu obsessives. Rather, American...