Talk:Soybean

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Potential_health_benefits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean#Potential_health_benefits

Why that is under "uses"? Formating error? ~2025-34842-24 (talk) 10:12, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 November 2025

The text "Soybeans are mainly grown in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina. " needs a citation.

For 2020-2023 (most recent years available), the top producers of soybeans were Brazil (132 million tonnes / year), USA (116 million t/yr), and Argentina (41 million t/year).

Capriciouscapybara (talk) 17:07, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

References

 Done Day Creature (talk) 18:14, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 November 2025 (2)

This sentence: "In spite of the Amazon "Soy Moratorium", soy production continues to play a significant role in deforestation when its indirect impacts are taken into account, as land used to grow soy continues to increase." could be updated to reflect that the soy moratorium is no longer a stable protection but is currently facing legal challenges.

There is no specific article on the soy moratorium, which perhaps would be a better place to discuss the history of the moratorium and its current legal challenges. There is a lot of media coverage as well as academic articles on its impacts. Capriciouscapybara (talk) 17:15, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

References

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Day Creature (talk) 18:15, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

My apologies for an unclear ask!

Could we replace this sentence: "In spite of the Amazon "Soy Moratorium", soy production continues to play a significant role in deforestation when its indirect impacts are taken into account, as land used to grow soy continues to increase."

with

"Soy remains one of the top drivers of deforestation globally (https://www.wri.org/research/estimating-role-seven-commodities-agriculture-linked-deforestation-oil-palm-soy-cattle) and in the deforestation hotspot of Brazil (https://www.sei.org/features/brazilian-soy-exports-and-deforestation/). Despite the historical efficacy of the "Amazon Soy Moratorium" (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaa0181) which decreased deforestation from soy within the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, clearing of forests outside of the Amazon has occurred both outside Brazil (https://wwfint.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/technical-brief--amazon-footprint-report--en-.pdf) and in other ecosystems like the Cerrado (https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/deforestation-brazils-cerrado-region-hurts-potential-soybean-output-study-finds-2025-11-17/. Soy may drive future clearing of the Amazon in Brazil as the soy moratorium is threatened. (citation 2, Rowlatt)." Capriciouscapybara (talk) 18:57, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

"Sources" section

Hi @John Cummings, I saw that the "Sources" section was added in this edit, which didn't actually need a "Free-content attribution" template since no content was copied from that source. Is there a good reason for keeping that section? (is there something else in the article some content that was copied from the FAO?) Alenoach (talk) 07:40, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi Alenoach, thanks very much for your message. See line 488, I include the sources attribution even when slightly modifying the text since sometimes the text is still too closely paraphrased (I don't remember if I did that in this edit) since it can still get caught by the copyvio. Adding the attribution makes it easier for people looking at the copyvio list to see its actually text from a compatible license publication and saves them extra work of a discussion with me about the source of the text. John Cummings (talk) 10:40, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Here is the relevant sentence in the source (page 15): "China was the main producer of soybean oil, with a share of 29 percent in 2022, and the United States of America was a distant second with a share of 21 percent."

Your version seemed ok to me from a copyvio perspective, but I rephrased it further to be extra safe and removed the "Sources" section to simplify, see this edit. Let me know if the edit is not ok. Alenoach (talk) 01:26, 11 July 2026 (UTC)