Tyson says biofuels should be blamed for Gulf dead zone as much as livestock

In Washington, Mighty Earth is pointing the finger at the nation’s livestock industry for driving demand for corn and soybeans that has led to the largest ever dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, but meat giant Tyson who is called out in the NGO’s report says it fails to take into consideration the demand for ethanol as a driver in the negative environmental impacts of large-scale agricultural production. Though Tyson points the finger at ethanol it fails to mention biodiesel that is a major consumer of soy oil.