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You are correct that soy bean protein is complete and the protein is of high quality, but it's a pet peeve of mine when people talk about protein completeness, as it is essentially false dichotomy. There is a (multi-dimensional) continuum of protein completeness in the sense that the amino acid profile doesn't just have to contain every essential amino acid, but has to contain it in the right amount, as is required by the average human being.

Soy protein for example is particularly low in Methionine and Cystine. If your goal is to get enough of those, you might have to eat three times as much soy as for example egg whites (by weight). But similarly soy protein has more Tryptophan than beef. "Completeness" is a binary that is not quite sufficient to describe protein quality.

There is a reason whey and egg proteins are more popular among strength athletes for example, as they are richer in leucine, which seems to be the limiting amino acid in muscle building.

I still think we should eat way less meat and soy is a very high quality substitute for it.



My point is more that cows are great at taking inedible grasses and turning them into protein. Growing a rich protein and then feeding it to a cow to make slightly different tasting protein is dumb.


> My point is more that cows are great at taking inedible grasses and turning them into protein

Impossible to scale however. Not sure how it is in other EU nations, but Germany in particular loves to put animals as closely together as they can get away with, which is basically in enclosures in which the animals can't move whatsoever.

It's especially egregious because these factories get subventions by animal, so everyone is paying to create these factories from hell - including people that don't eat meat for moral reasons. And no political party sees any issues with that.


I don’t doubt that was your original point, but I think dxuh’s contribution shows that it’s a much more nuanced continuum than your comment suggested.


It tastes better is plenty good enough reason. We build multi-billion dollar companies for slight conveniences and you call this dumb...lol.


> I still think we should eat way less meat and soy is a very high quality substitute for it.

"I still think _i_ should eat way less meat and soy is a very high quality substitute for it."

There, FTFY.

(i see the soyboys came, again, out of their woodworks already)


No, you are included in this too.


You vill eat ze bugs, you vill own nothing, and you vill be happy


Crunchy munchie, toasty tasty, yippie yaa jee haa!




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