Soy

I have recently read ‘Trick and Treat’ by Barry Groves, ‘We Want Real Food’ by Graham Harvey and ‘Living Earth’ issue 237 by the Soil Association. Here I have learned that soy is not the perfect food we are led to believe it is. It contains toxins that not only reduce the absorption of vitamins and minerals, but also reduce thyroid activity, which affects our whole metabolism. It inhibits the absorption of zinc which is needed for proper development of the brain and nervous system, and has an important role in the immune system. It contains phytoestrogens which can affect the way a child develops. Why do we feed it to them? Fermentation of soy destroys or neutralises many toxins and makes it safe to eat. Over 60% of supermarket products contain unfermented soy flour and milk.
Animals traditionally grazed on pasture rich in grasses mostly made up of perennial plants. Today farmers around the world are ploughing up these perennial grasslands and sowing new annual crops of cereal and soy. 72 million acres of soy are grown in the USA and soy has displaced an area the size of Devon and Cornwall in the rainforest. It makes the farmers a lot of money. Most soy is grown with heavy inputs of pesticide and chemical fertilizer and the growing of annual crops reduces soil fertility and releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Animals are now fed on cereals and soy instead of grasses and this has serious health implications for them and for us.
The world’s soils are the largest terrestrial reservoir of carbon and hold three times as much of it as the atmosphere and four times as much as vegetation. A sizeable part of the damaging extra load of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today comes from soil carbon released when we switched from traditional farming methods to intensive cereal and soy production. By returning to traditional farming methods and once more grazing animals on perennial pastures that do not require pesticides and chemical fertilizers, we could easily reverse this process and put the excess carbon safely back into the soil.
There is substantial evidence to show that a diet rich in real, fresh, unprocessed food, mainly from animal sources is good for us. We could preserve our planet and our health by eating meat and dairy products from pasture-fed animals.
For those experiencing allergies and intolerances, they can safely be eliminated using NAET.

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