Veg*ns, it's time you knew the truth about soy.

[LeftyMom]

http://veganfeministagitator.blogspot.com/2011/09/soy-will-kill-you-dead.html

Dear Vegans,

If you don’t value your own life, please at least care about the future of others. There is a looming green menace, a bean determined to wreak havoc any place where its roots can burrow into the ground like hungry, greedy tentacles. It is dire but it’s not too late: we must do our part now to uproot this vicious plant until it becomes fully indestructible and sends our planet on a collision course with obliteration. It is truly the Bad Bean. (The following footnoted article was peer-reviewed by the board of directors of the Weston A. Price Foundation.)

To put it bluntly, soy will kill you DEAD. 1

Women, soy will turn your ovaries inside out before they shrink into themselves, drain down your legs and settle into your feet. This will eventually cripple you. This is a small matter because your muscles would have atrophied long before this due to Toxic Estrogenic-Legume Syndrome and your brain will have become porous with Tofu Spongiform Edamamepathy. Then you will die. 2

Men, exposure to soy will make you grow giant breasts sloshing with soymilk. It will make your genitalia shrink into petunia-shaped little nubs 3 as the steady drip-drip-drip of phytoestrogens into your bloodstream transforms you into a grotesque quasi-female freak-form come to life. Your breasts will keep growing until they eventually smother you and endanger your community. Then you will die. 4

continued at link http://veganfeministagitator.blogspot.com/2011/09/soy-will-kill-you-dead.html

[flvegan]

1. Did Price, et al actually peer review that article?

I need to know before I milk my giant soymilk breasts.

[LeftyMom]

2. Well the article came out in 2011, and Weston A. Price DDS died in 1948.

It's possible that Sally Fallon and Mary Enig were tripping on some lactofermented liver and got in contact with the spirit world.

[flvegan]

3. Price, et al meaning the "foundation"

[LeftyMom]

4. Did you read the link?

Make sure to read the titles in the footnotes.

[WillParkinson]

10. Well that's just...um...

Udderly ridiculous.

[provis99]

5. we must liberate ourselves from our oppressive soy bean masters!

strike a blow for the revolution today by throwing that tofu burger in the garbage before it obliterates you!

[Kalidurga]

6. Funniest footnotes I have ever read...

Soy promises it washed the dishes, but really it just ran them under the faucet and put them away all wet and dirty.

Soy puts the empty orange juice carton back in the fridge.

Soy tells your mechanic to rip you off.

So, soy is bad I take it. I guess it is back to soylent green then.

[HiPointDem]

7. the majority of the soy you get in the us = genetically modified and produced by 2 giant ag-corps.

which is who pays for the PR about the health benefits of soy that convinced the yuppies eating it would bring them closer to god.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. Well indeed GlobalAgriCorp is a problem.

But it is a problem with almost everything most people eat.

[HiPointDem]

9. yes, it is a problem that ag-biz is the hidden sponsor of most of the information that leads

people into obsessing over what they eat and using diet as a status marker.

cha-ching!

[LeftyMom]

11. You mean the stuff they feed to the animals you eat?

Soy in vegetarian food is mostly organic or non-GMO. And there are no yuppies on this thread. Because it's not 1985.

[HiPointDem]

14. what makes you think i eat animals? The majority (~90%) of US soy acreage = GMO.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/biotechcrops/

< .2% of soy acreage = organic.

http://grist.org/food/the-soy-next-door/


As vegetarian diets grew in popularity — concurrent with the commercialization of organic farming — Big Food found ways to co-opt and mass-market soy, using a synthetic solvent called hexane to extract soy protein isolates from the bean. These isolates give veggie burgers and energy bars a cheap dose of protein.

The Cornucopia report looked at the environmental and health effects of using hexane in soy processing, a practice Steve Demos, founder of White Wave Foods, called “the dirty little secret of the natural-foods business.”

“Hexane is a neurotoxin, according to the CDC and the EPA, and that’s something that nobody will dispute,” Vallaeys said. “What they will dispute is how much the residues harm people. There really have not been any long-term studies on what the effects are.”

The EPA lists hexane — a petroleum byproduct of gasoline refining — as a hazardous air pollutant. In 2003, two workers in an Iowa soybean processing plant died when hexane gas at the plant ignited...Workers exposed to large amounts of hexane over long periods of time have also shown nerve damage....the toxin hasn’t been tested for its impacts on consumers who eat products that may be tainted with hexane residue — like protein bars and infant formula.

USDA organic standards specifically prohibit the use of hexane, so certified-organic soy products should be risk-free. But, as Vallaeys explained, a “second tier” of organic standards allows products with at least 70 percent organic components to claim to be “made with organic ingredients.” So, while Clif Bar can drive sales by declaring its products are “made with organic oats and soybeans,” it can still get away with using hexane-extracted soy protein isolates in the remaining 30 percent of its ingredients that don’t have to conform to organic standards...

http://grist.org/food/the-soy-next-door/

[LeftyMom]

15. The vast majority of that crop is used as animal feed.

I've seen numbers ranging from 80% into the high nineties. Soy based foods marketed to veg*ns and other health-conscious people, at least those sold in the US, are largely labeled non-GMO or organic (which would mean they're non GMO.)

[HiPointDem]

16. as cited, less than 1% (= .2%) of us soy acreage = organic.

and as the article said, "organic ingredients" can mean 30% non-organic ingredients.

about 92% of us soy acreage = gmo. = 8% non-gmo.

of that, about 85% is converted to soy meal (the conversion necessary to produce animal feed). = about 7% not used for feed.

about 90% of soy meal is used in livestock feed. = 10% of gmo meal not used for animal feed.

most of the oil fraction in the meal production process is converted to cooking oil and similar uses.

if you're happy with your soy, why are you arguing about it. eat hearty.

[Codeine]

13. "Yuppies"?!

Wow.

[provis99]

17. calling them yuppies is wrong.

the proper term is New Age fanatics.

[Codeine]

12. OMG I want my own giant soymilk breasts SO BAD!!

And really, my genitals are pretty much petunia-nubs anyway -- no harm, no foul.

[HopeHoops]

18. I'm a guy and my tits and naughty bits are doing just fine after many years of soy consumption.

I'm more worried about the soil depletion caused by soy crops.