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Re:One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swi... by evgen on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:08PM (#21940457)
While in this case protein is just generic for 'meat', in the specific cast Tyson is taking plant protein that you or I cannot consume and turning it into a protein that we can eat. Does an oil refinery destroy oil? Well, I guess so, but that is not exactly the term that is commonly used to describe the refining process.
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Re:One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swi... by greglindahl on Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:20PM (#21941060)
It wasn't clear to me that "protein" was generic for "meat", but in this specific case soybeans can be turned into tofu. And that's a reasonably popular protein source for humans in China -- especially if high prices of other human-consumed proteins causes product substitution.
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