Can Soymilk Be Hazardous To Your Health?
By Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com/greatbooks.html
Robbins explains:
"Advances in food technology have made it possible to isolate soy proteins, isoflavones, and other substances found in the bean, and add them to all kinds of foods where they've never been before."
Robbins is right about that. The process by which soy proteins are extracted from the whole bean often requires dangerous chemicals, and hazardous substances can find their way into factory-produced soymilk.
Soy-basher Sally Fallon agrees that processed soy products are dangerous. She writes:
"Soy also contains a human carcinogen called 3-MCPD. The substance is created during the manufacture of soy sauce and hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP). It is also present in soy sausages and other imitation foods."
Foods made in factories that you end up putting into your bodies as fuel sometimes contain added substances that do not do your body any good. In the name of health, some manufacturers intentionally add these dangerous substances, and spend millions of dollars to advertise their benefit. Call SILK and ask for a list of their flavor enhancers, and you will be told that their list is "proprietary." See what I mean? There ought to be a law!
Soymilk manufacturers who add hidden substances to their soy products, and refuse to reveal their dirty secrets, deserve your anger, and you should boycott their products.
Some soymilk manufacturers isolate soy proteins by extracting the "goodness" with petro-chemical solvents.
How do SILK or VitaSoy or any other soymilk manufacturer isolate their soy protein? They're not going to tell you. Their process is "secret." What a laugh. Look on their cartons. The letters "DE" mean that their soymilk is actually processed by dairy manufacturers using dairy equipment. Who is in bed with whom?
Do methanol, ethanol, and formaldehyde do your body any good? Do preservatives preserve health, or do they merely preserve enormous profits gained by manufacturers at the expense of your health?
Soymilk should NOT cost you more than $2 per quart as it does in most supermarkets. Not when wholesale bean buyers can purchase those soybeans that yield one quart of soymilk for less than a penny.
The wholesale cost of one quart of cow's milk (the price the farmer receives) is about 20 cents. That dairyman has got to inject hormones and antibiotics. He then medicates, feeds, milks, and shovels the fertilizer from his cow. His job is labor-intensive.
The wholesale cost of soybeans that make one quart of soymilk is about one-fiftieth of the cow's milk, yet, both products sell for the same price. Who pays the price of corporate greed? The consumer. You.
THE ALTERNATIVE
It is not practical to have a cow in your backyard. Neither is it healthy. A soymilk machine fits easily on your kitchen counter.
Make your own soymilk with soybeans and water, and you control your product. Buy the factory-made version and you end up drinking an unknown product containing emulsifiers, preservatives, flavor enhancers, additives, and artificial whiteners. Furthermore, much of the beneficial fiber and protein is strained out of nature's original goodness.
You can make your own, of course, and in a few months you will end up paying for your soymilk machine by the savings realized by not getting ripped off by soymilk manufacturers. If the health issues do not concern you, keep in mind who controls soymilk sales and profits from the purchases of most soymilk products. The dairy industry. They've invested in SILK, the largest selling soymilk in America. Since dairy interests control the supermarket aisle space next to cow's milk, when you buy the soy, you support the dairy guys.
The SoyToys are here!
http://www.SoyToy.com
Call toll-free:
1-888-668-6455
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Robert Cohen author of: MILK - The Deadly Poison (201-871-5871) Executive Director (notmilkman@notmilk.com) Dairy Education Board http://www.notmilk.com
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