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

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

Make sure to read the titles in the footnotes.

Udderly ridiculous.

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

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.

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.

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

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

cha-ching!

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

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/

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.)

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.

Wow.

the proper term is New Age fanatics.

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

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