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The Deadly Soybean

by Christopher Combs
09/27/09
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It is planted all around the world in farm fields, millions of acres of land given for its cultivation. It provides a safe cash crop for thousands of farmers who gladly plant it each year and pay a levy to the developers of its genetically modified strains, as the Monsanto Chemical Company and other large companies tell us that soy is good for our health.

Even doctors, nutritionists, farmers, government authorities, and well-known companies that have been around for years in our society all tell us that this product called soy is harmless and safe and even a wonderful food.

For decades these companies have known about the evidence that long-term ingestion of soy causes cancer, destroys bone, represses the sex drive, and creates chaos with the hormonal endocrine systems of both humans and animals. Phytic acid is a part of the deadly soybean's makeup and this acid impairs the absorption of all minerals, especially calcium, it strips the body of calcium. The enzyme inhibitors in soybeans also block trypsin and other enzymes that are essential for good health.

The soy companies and their propagandists fail to mention that their product contains a potent female hormone called phytoestrogens. If you are a man and you continually consume their product, your testosterone levels will drop, and you may develop breasts. If your baby son is fed soy formula while in the womb, then fed more of it after he is born, he will be in danger of having a penis no larger than its tiny size in infancy, and may also develop breasts. The isoflavones in soy products which are a subclass of phytoestrogens naturally found in soybeans can also depress thyroid function and weaken the autoimmune system or even cause cancer of the thyroid.

Certain people have even developed Hashimoto's Disease or acute Hashimoto's Thyroiditis which is an acute autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid gland, the little butterfly-shaped gland in the throat. This means that the thyroid is attacking itself and can no longer produce thyroid hormones. The thyroid filters the blood and produces nine different types of hormones that strengthen the immune system. Many women who consumed soy products for years now have hypothyroid, which is low thyroid, little or no production of thyroid hormones, which will wreak havoc on the body.

The soybean has naturally occurring plant phytoestrogens, which are plant chemicals having estrogenic (estrus-inducing) effects. Phytoestrogens are chemical compounds that contain many sub-classes, such as coumestans, isoflavones, lignans, and sterols. The phytoestrogens occur in nature to help regulate animal breeding cycles. Farmers use the synthetic form for the same purpose. Soybeans also contain hem-agglutinin, a clot-promoting substance that causes red blood cells to clump together, and these cells are unable to properly absorb oxygen and this can result in damage to the heart.

The Swiss Health Service proclaims that 100 grams of soy protein is the estrogenic equivalent of one contraceptive pill. Feeding an infant soy formula is the equivalent of giving it five birth control pills a day. Many doctors unknowingly and ignorantly prescribe soy milk to nursing mothers who follow their doctor's advice and drink large amounts of soy milk during pregnancy which in turn poisons the mother and baby with extra amounts of estrogen, a female hormone, causing damage to her reproductive system, not allowing her to breastfeed, so the baby is then fed more soy milk.

Baby girls as young as four and five years of age drinking soy milk commenced menstruation and developed pubic hair, underarm odor, and breasts. Baby boys fed large amounts of soy milk over a long time have under-developed genitalia and begin to grow female breasts. All this damage is caused by hormonal imbalance from the consumption of high levels of estrogen which came from the soy milk which was made from the soybean.

The deadly soybean is already naturally loaded with potential carcinogens and many other plant chemicals as it grows in the fields, but greedy men add even more to the toxic little bean and put 12 manmade chemicals into the soy product during the processing stages.

Aluminum is one of the most common minerals in the soil, but it does not affect most crops. Yet the deadly little soybean contains high levels of aluminum absorbed from the soil in which it is grown because of its natural affinity for aluminum. This is a major problem with soy.

In 1997 the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition reported the aluminum content in human breast milk is 4 to 65 ng/mL, while soy-based formulas contain 600 to 1300 ng/mL. For these soy companies to get the bean product changed into soy milk, since you cannot milk a soybean, they must put it through rigorous processes to get to the smooth white liquid that is shown in television commercials and magazine ads

. First, they have to grind the beans at high temperatures; secondly, they extract the remaining oils using dangerous solvents, some of which remain in the meal. Then the meal is mixed with an alkaline solution with added sugars in a separation process designed to remove bulk fiber. Then it is separated from the solution and suspension using an acid wash which takes place inside large aluminum holding tanks and of course, some of the aluminum is leached into the soy again.

Finally, the 12 man-made chemicals are added after this extensive process, which is known to be dangerous, if not deadly. Then, traces of aluminum from both sources are absorbed into the human body through the ingestion of soy. High levels of aluminum have reportedly been found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients after autopsy and aluminum is suspected to be a major cause of the disease.

Also, a study at the University of California-Irvine pointed to the increased risk of behavioral problems such as ADHD being triggered by high concentrations of manganese in soy formula, where they found soy milk containing about 80 times the levels of manganese found in human breast milk which could cause infants to receive too much manganese in the first weeks of life.

Even vegetable oil, if you look at the label on the back is soybean oil. Most dog foods and cat foods have soy meal in the ingredients list. Even our pets are at risk of ingesting the deadly soy.

Even if soy were eliminated from our food supply today, it is so embedded in our society and in the bodies of those who have ingested it, that it would continue to harm our children for generations.

The sad truth about the infiltration of the soybean into the Western diet is a story of corporate greed, lies, irresponsibility, fraud and control of the media, suppression, government incompetence, intimidation, and legal manipulation.

The Nestle Corporation and owner of Carnation brand products, still advertises soy products. They brought infant formula to the poorer countries of the world and discouraged breastfeeding.

According to the World Health Organization, Nestle was responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million babies each year and they are still advertising their poison soy products such as Alsoy despite the evidence that it is deadly.

Soy-based formulas account for approximately 750 million dollars of the annual $3 billion in sales revenues, according to Insight on the News (June 26, 2001) article. There are at least 100 million acres of soy under cultivation in the United States, and much of it is (GM) genetically modified.

The Monsanto Corporation has 45 million acres of genetically modified soybeans growing in the United States. The law permits these genetically engineered crops to be mixed with a small amount of organic soybeans, and then the two together can be labeled as organic!

To produce this much soy each year requires a huge market for it, so American soybean farmers contribute approximately 80 million dollars per year to finance the largest ad campaigns of propaganda to the American public. This powerful advertising machine ensures that news stories about the benefits of soy are everywhere in our society backed by millions of dollars.

The soy companies will spare no expense to take out expensive full-page ads in national newspapers to disclaim the ones who dare attack the deadly soybean and calm their readers, listeners, and viewers into thinking their products are perfectly safe.

Just check out any women's magazines, read newspaper articles, and watch television commercials that are just about the soy drinks alone. The soy-producing companies like Nestle Corporation, Sanitarium Health Food Company from Australia, and Monsanto Corporation spend millions of dollars just to advertise the so-called 'healthy' benefits of soy.

The brainwashing of Americans concerning soy is so extensive that even the health professionals simply go along with the 'herd' mentality and they simply believe whatever sounds reasonable at the time and they appear too busy or unconcerned to even question the lies about the deadly soybean.

The best way for us to overcome the lies that have been told over and over for so long by the soy industry is to spread the truth about soy, about how countless lives have been lost and damaged by this awful product for so many years now.

We must read labels on the products we buy and study to search out the real truth, then tell it to our friends and family and spread the news so our children will be protected in the future and avoid the deadly soybean.