Soya products and the earth

topic posted Fri, January 11, 2008 - 3:34 AM by  Ayola
Guys,
don´t want to spoil the party, but I´ve been working with bio diversity for the past 15 years, and there is not many things as terrifying as Soya!
PLEASE!!!! move to rice milk!
If more people would start asking for rice milk than places would start offering it as an alternative.
To make a long story short so Soya is the one thing on earth which is right now 100% genetically patented.(meaning all the soya you would ever get is exactly the same... which makes you allergic, which prevents farmers to be able to market it freely without huge co operations, which creates mega weeds and kills insects...wheat is the next, 90% patented).and organic soya is not less patented.
Also Soya is a monoculture, it has pushed the desert line in Mexico lower and lower (not reversable) and is now turning the rainforest into a desert (apart from deforestation for growing soya,also as it is genetically manipulated by default, it "preserves" the fields and no other crop can grow there after).
first link I came up with was www.rainforests.net/therapeo...orest.htm but there are thousands, please contact me if you want any more information.
If you are Vegans in order not to tortures cows (which I am) is cutting trees and damaging bio diversity your option?
and if you are Vegan for health reasons
Soya might have full protein but"
It contains high quantities of various toxic chemicals, which cannot be fully destroyed even by the long cooking
process. These are: phytates, which block the body's uptake of minerals; enzyme inhibitors, which hinder
protein digestion; and haemaggluttin, which causes red blood cells to clump together and inhibits oxygen
take-up and growth. Most controversially of all, soya contains high levels of the phytoestrogens (also known as
isoflavones) genistein and daidzein, which mimic and sometimes block the hormone oestrogen. "
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4115506.stm
...and all this information is out for more than ten years.

Dear Vegan Family,
would love to hear any comments.

Sister Ayola
posted by:
Ayola
Spain

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