The Soy Bean Myth...

Day 227 of 365 Sober and I'm working on Nutrition & Consumption... I've been drinking Soya milk for over 2 years now and feel much better for it as I've removed all dairy from my diet. But more recently there's all sorts of propaganda about not drinking anything soy based because it's not environmentally friendly...

One academic says "Soy is almost always more environmentally friendly than eating meat... Soy is a complicated little bean. In an individual's diet, it can be a healthy source of protein and fibre. But as a global commodity crop, it can leave a devastating environmental footprint.” and do you know how it's leaving a devastating environmental footprint? Because the bloody farmers all over the world, including dairy farmers are cropping it in mass volumes to feed to their animals because it's so bloody healthy, they even use it all over the place in trout farms as part of a grub meal base!!

So fear not eco-warriors, if you use soy based products, you should note that it's not us that are causing the issue!! Ninety eight percent of soybean meal is used for animal feed (poultry, pigs and cattle mostly) and only one percent is used to produce food for people. On the other hand, 88 percent of soybean oil is used for human consumption (mostly cooking oil) and 12 percent is used as an alternative to petroleum oil (petroleum products include transportation fuels, fuel oils for heating and electricity generation, asphalt and road oil, and feed-stocks for making the chemicals, plastics, and synthetic materials that are in nearly everything we use). So thus dispels the propaganda those farmers want you feeling guilty about and if we all just went plant based and stopped nipping out for that fast food caked in oi, while using less plastic and buying less mass produced sh*t from China, then the planets ying & yang would be back in sync and the world would make sense again!!

I love having more space in my head for all this true knowledge!! So glad I'm no longer self medicating!!