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Tim Boyd
6/27/2013
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One such example is of an industrial study on soy that presumed to promote the ability of soy to prevent cancer. The
study compared soy protein to the milk protein casein. The conclusion was that soy was better at preventing cancer
than casein. Comparing isolated proteins, however, is like comparing Twinkies to Snickers. One may be slightly less
carcinogenic than the other, but so what? They are both bad.
There are many derivatives of soy and many things being done with soy products. There are good uses for soy. The
ink used in printing Wise Traditions journals is soy-based. One indication of how many different products and uses
there are for soy is the soy derivative lysophosphatidylethanolamine (no, my cat didnt just walk across my
keyboard). This is used as a fruit ripener and shelf-life extender. Apparently they have run out of words that anyone
can pronounce so they had to resort to. . . that. Guys, dont try to impress your girlfriends with words like that. You
will die alone.
Another fun feature of soy is how it can affect the lower digestive system in somewhat volatile ways. I wont say it is
a major contributor to global warming but it could cause considerably more air quality contamination than one might
care to contemplate. There are a lot of cracks I could make but the bottom line is you dont want to be downwind of a
soy lover. Just another way that eating soy could lead to a lonely death.
Probably the most horrific scheme the food industry dreamed up was using soy in infant formula. This is covered
extensively in The Whole Soy Story. The resulting product lacks many of the key nutrients that babies require. Soy
formula can expose an infant to the estrogen equivalent of three to five birth control pills per day. This wreaks
hormonal havoc in both boys and girls. To anyone outside of the soy industry, that is an incredibly bad idea.
As I am writing this review, the news media are fussing over horsemeat in the food supply, which makes me laugh
pretty hard. This is a classic case of straining at gnats and swallowing camels. . . or horses. There can be
carcinogenic chemicals, soy, GMO, or all of the above in our food and that seems to be quite acceptable, but
horsemeat? Whoa, there, Wilbur! Seriously, if horsemeat is the worst thing in your industrial strength Macburger,
count your many, many blessings. If you dont want to eat horse or something worse, trot on out of those fastfooderies and big box supermarkets and get your nearest local WAPF chapter to hook you up with some real feed.
Im sure it is no surprise that my thumb is giddy-UP for this book.
This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the
Weston A. Price Foundation, Summer 2013.
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