> From Christy Korrow > Not to mention that this is the same process with a slight twist. And do we > have to shove soy products down the throat of every living human being. I > for one think not, and I'm looking forward to the day when you can read the > back of something in the grocery store that doesn't have partially > hydrogenated soy oil.
Me too - I got really sick a few years ago from using soy milk as a dairy replacement - it will take years to repair the damage I did to my digestive system - and as above here this stuff is in everything!! Large scale cropping of soyabeans (and canola) is a huge outlet for the products of the chemical companies. We just saw (yesterday) our ABC TV landline program with an interview of the young farmer from Kansas who was sued by Monsanto for deciding to stop using roundup ready beans. This is a real interesting case and really shows the chemical company in their true colours. Here we have a young, progressive, and successful farmer, quite happy to use bought seed and any amount of chemicals required to do a "good " job, a major farming operation, 3500 acres of beans, several million $ turnover, and he quit pure and simple because THE SYSTEM WAS NOT PERFORMING. yields were lower and costs were higher using RR. This would be a real bad example so they had to silence this guy and eventually they did - sued him till it became evident he could loose the farm and then he settled out of court with a hush clause in the settlement contract. He made an interesting comment at the end , saying that a lot of farmers are happy putting up with the lower yield and higher costs because it (RR) allows them to " FARM DUMB" !!
