Soya Bean or Healthy Earth

                            

                                                     

Earlier this week I read two articles that both came across the issue of Brazil’s Amazon being affected by the planting of soya. The author of “Soya Scrutiny” explains how what once was a rainforest now looks more like the Great Plains. My other editorial attacked the issue at more of a health angle. “Amazon May be levelled by the Humble Soya” states how the Amazon produces about 20% of the Earths oxygen. The planting of Soya has become a hazard to not only animals in the Amazon, but also to humans across the world. By limiting the planting of soya, the Earth will be more resilient and a better place for humans and wildlife.

According to “Soya Scrutiny” in “2006 Cargill, the US agricultural giant based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, had expanded a port in Santarém, Pará state..”. This article states how the business did not review the environmental impact assessment to see how it effects the wildlife around them. This assessment wasn’t completed until 2010. “With the world's attention on it, Cargill formed partnerships with several green groups, including The Nature Conservancy, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia” (“Nature”). The company thought that by incorporating themselves with such organizations they would appear environment friendly. Although these partnerships were created nothing changed the ways of Cargill.

My second article stated many facts about how the planting of Soya was a health hazard to many habitats including ours. “Huge swaths of the land are being transformed not only by illegal logging companies and cattle ranchers, but also by a newer invader, the soya bean.”(“Gaurdian”). The article claims that the company Cargill is being confronted by the Brazilian Government about the environmental report that was never reported. The Amazon is “home to 30% of all plant and animal species. It is so immense that it would swallow Europe in full”(“Gaurdian”). 

The editorial that I read from the "Gaurdian" came off as more appealing and convincing to me. The fact that it stated more stats about what the soya bean was doing to the earth and to the habitats that were wiped out for this to be possible.By keeping the trees more oxygen is created which is needed for us humans to live and also exercise without the worry of becoming short of air. I feel that by limiting the amount of space used for the soya bean or at least by doing the environmental report the wildlife and the Earth can remain healthy.