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24 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read

Fermented soy beans baby

I love zhajiang but hate the smell. Not because it’s bad per se but because it is the EXACT smell as when I worked at the fertilizer factory

I should do a series where I show Brazilian soya agribusiness what Chinese people do with all the soy they sell them. Fine Bros present Brazilian Landlords React

The fertilizer smell never goes away btw. Whole outfit of clothes I had to just give up on and toss, it sinks into the fabric

Anyway it’s a trip to be in China and see fermented soy at a restaurant and realize that there’s a good chance it originated from the deforested Amazon. To understand political economy you must follow the odyssey of one individual soy bean from pod to plate

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