SOYA

Composed of 44% soybean, GMO is an important source of protein, mainly used to feed farm animals.

It represents two thirds of the total world output of protein feedstuffs, including all other major oil meals and fish meal.

Its feeding value is unsurpassed by any other plant protein source and it is the standard to which other protein sources are compared (Cromwell, 1999).

While it has been an accepted part of livestock and poultry diets in the USA since the mid-1930s, soybean feed production took off in the mid-1970s and then accelerated in the early 1990s due to a growing demand from developing countries.