Is it ok to use soy milk? Here’s a way of thinking of it. Some tomatoes are grown with heavy inputs of energy and/or flown in from abroad. But some are grown locally and seasonally. The moral is not to stop eating any tomatoes but to buy only those which are local and seasonal. Similarly some soy (depressingly vast amounts indeed) is bad news – grown on cleared rainforest with much fertiliser and then used to feed livestock. But some is grown responsibly and used to feed humans directly, in the form of tofu, soy milk and the like – and when so grown soy is a good nutritious crop, like other beans. So the moral seems to be not to forswear all soy products but to find out which are responsibly produced – and then to support the responsible producers. So are there any responsible producers? Alpro – and Provamel which is the organic sub-brand of Alpro – claim to be this. In particular, Alpro say that they never source beans from deforested rainforest. Should one be cynical about this? I don’t know of any reason to be.