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I stumbled upon this article and thought I would share. Many processed products contain soy oil (also highly likely GMO) and I just thought you should be aware there ARE studies being done on the side affects-like sterility.
We do our best to only eat organic and I can/freeze what I can during the seasons so I have organic veggies during the winter months. That and it's cheaper to do that than buy canned/imported in the winter months.
Soy is in many products-especially things such as dressings, processed foods/etc. So just because you don't drink soy milk (if you are feeding your baby soy formula I would be doing a LOT more research on this topic considering the possible side affects) doesn't mean you aren't consuming it in something else that you generally wouldn't think would be an issue. At the very least it is food for thought.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/genetically-modified-soy_b_544575.html
A snipe from the article:
"This study was just routine," said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. What he discovered may uproot a multi-billion dollar industry.
After feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, those on the GM diet, and especially the group on the maximum GM soy diet, showed devastating results. By the third generation, most GM soy-fed hamsters lost the ability to have babies. They also suffered slower growth, and a high mortality rate among the pups.
And if this isn't shocking enough, some in the third generation even had hair growing inside their mouths--a phenomenon rarely seen, but apparently more prevalent among hamsters eating GM soy.
We do our best to only eat organic and I can/freeze what I can during the seasons so I have organic veggies during the winter months. That and it's cheaper to do that than buy canned/imported in the winter months.
Soy is in many products-especially things such as dressings, processed foods/etc. So just because you don't drink soy milk (if you are feeding your baby soy formula I would be doing a LOT more research on this topic considering the possible side affects) doesn't mean you aren't consuming it in something else that you generally wouldn't think would be an issue. At the very least it is food for thought.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/genetically-modified-soy_b_544575.html
A snipe from the article:
"This study was just routine," said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. What he discovered may uproot a multi-billion dollar industry.
After feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, those on the GM diet, and especially the group on the maximum GM soy diet, showed devastating results. By the third generation, most GM soy-fed hamsters lost the ability to have babies. They also suffered slower growth, and a high mortality rate among the pups.
And if this isn't shocking enough, some in the third generation even had hair growing inside their mouths--a phenomenon rarely seen, but apparently more prevalent among hamsters eating GM soy.
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