Natural News – by David Gutierrez
Soy protein is a common ingredient not just in health foods but also in any food where a cheap source of protein is needed. Texturized vegetable protein, made with soy, is actually used to bulk up hamburgers in schools and prisons.
To make concentrated soy protein, however, the fat must first be removed from soy beans. This is commonly achieved by bathing the soy beans or soy flour in hexane, a byproduct of gas refining and grain processing.
Hexane is a regulated air pollutant that has been known to cause skin and nervous system damage to factory workers, but the FDA does not track its use or presence in food.
Organic standards prohibit its use, but even here consumers may be deceived. A product labeled “made with organic ingredients” may still contain hexane if any of the soy-related products are non-organic. This means that practically the only way to avoid hexane-tainted soy is to read ingredient labels and look for the word “organic” in front of every soy ingredient.
Sources:
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thanks jstp. Also textured vegetable protein is made up mostly from g.m.o. soy product. DOUBLE WHAMMY.
By product of gas refining in food,what could possibly go wrong!?
What is so sinister and sneaky is that these foods we have grown up eating, are not the same foods of our childhoods. I’m not saying that everything we ate as kids was good for us (red dye #2?), but a hamburger used to be a hamburger, didn’t have these fillers, the meat wasn’t (as) contaminated.
I am starting to see a shift in awareness and nervousness about our food supply, particularly in the community of “moms” who are very concerned about feeding their families in a healthy way…. from an interest in eating frugally, it shifted to concerns about allergies (peanut, corn, etc.) which NEVER were around when I was a kid. And then… “real food”… and now…. “clean food”…. I don’t think this is just unjustified paranoia.
At least the news is spreading. For too long, too many have been eating something that “looks like, tastes like, must therefore be….” and now we are wising up, and shifting away from processed “foods.” Growing our own. Getting to know our local farms.
The internet is helping. 🙂
Oh, yesterday on the radio I heard a very interesting (desperate?) attempt to promote the GMO Arctic apple. Interesting listening to all the disinfo, as I now know better. But very sneaky. I can see how people get fooled. Now that the tactics are more apparent, the script is more easily recognized and the manipulation techniques are laid bare.
If it needs a label, it isn’t food, and shouldn’t be consumed. Period.
(well actually, I didn’t have to say “period” because we have a little button for that)