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soy petition

DID YOU KNOW that SOY is present in 60% of products sold in supermarkets? Soy has many different applications because it is rich in proteins and soybean oil. It can be found in animal feed and therefore in pork chops and eggs as well. The demand for soy is growing and hundreds of square kilometres of tropical forest disappear each year. In addition, working conditions for farmers in Brazil and other countries where soy is grown are far from ideal and unfair trade agreements are common practice. This is why Fairfood lobbies poultry brand owners to switch to sustainable soy. Chickens will eat fair soy and you will have a fair egg for breakfast!


You can do your part by signing this petition. We will use it for lobbying companies. Three main players on the Dutch egg market have already switched to fair soy, but there are many more companies we want to persuade.

I sign for fair soy!

I support Fairfood in the following:

Fairfood encourages and enables consumers to eat and drink fair products. These are products whose production and trade contribute to the eradication of hunger and poverty in developing countries.

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More on soy

Soy is grown in many countries, including India, the United States, China, Argentina and Brazil, amongst others. The rapid growth of soy production offers both economic and social advantages. However, this growth also has a lot of disadvantages.
In order to grow soy, about 3.7 million hectares of tropical rainforest are disappearing each year, mainly from South America. This is an area  the size of the Netherlands. As new land is needed every time new soy is planted, serious conflicts arise because large companies are constantly trying to take land from smaller farmers in every way possible. In addition, working conditions are poor, wages are low, housing conditions are substandard, and there are hardly any medical facilities. To make matters worse, some plantations practice modern slavery. Another problem is that the soy fields are dusted with tons of agricultural pesticides (using small planes), which is harmful not only to the environment but also to people.

 
Fair soy is possible
If soy is grown in accordance with the “Basel criteria”, all of these problems are taken into account and it ensures that the economic advantages of soy production are not obtained at the expense of people or the environment. Fairfood wants to encourage a number of chicken and egg producers to switch to this sustainable type of soy, so that chickens will eat fair soy and you will have a fair egg for breakfast!