Genetically Modified Soy

I came across this news and wish to share it with everyone.

Feeding prisoners genetically modified soy products may be 'cruel and unusual' punishment

I am aware of some of the genetically-modified-soy's effect to our health and have been trying to avoid drinking soy milk and some other soy products when eating out. Many wonder why I don't like soy milk... i think this news should be reminder for myself and awareness for everyone on the seriousness of this issue.

We are ingesting lots of soy or soy products in our daily meal knowing or unknowingly. However, how many percent of them are genetically modified? Are we suffering from constipation, heart palpitations, rashes, depression, fatigue, overweight and bald/hair lost and infertility due to soy/soy products that we eat everyday unknowingly? Does anyone ever wonder why are we having all these problem and couldn't find the reason behind it?

Well, GM soy could be the reason.

More than 80% of the soy in the world are GM soy. So it is very high chance that the soy products that we buy from the stores are GM soy. Soy could be found in most of the commonly eaten everyday food, such as tofu, soy milk, taufu hua, beancurd, vegetarian fake meat, soy bean. Or it could hide in the food as the following ingredients: lecithin, soy protein, extracted vitamin E, soy powder, vegetable oil made from soy. All these can be additives in the food such as baby's formula milk powder, ice cream, biscuits, bread, margarine, soy yogurt, protein powder, yogurt drink, chips/crackers, sweets, chocolate bars, noodles and flour as well as skin care products and shampoo and etc.

You might be asking this question by now: so how do we avoid these soy products?

You can try to avoid them by reading the ingredients of the products that you are interested in for any of these soy ingredients, and whether if they are organic and non-GMO soy. If they do not state that organic and non-GMO soy is used, then it is very highly that the soy used are genetically modified.

Another approach is to buy fresh organic produce and avoid packaged/processed food.

Remember, we as consumer can demand for a change if we choose to avoid buying GM soy products or any other GM produce. Ignorance would cause us our health and worse is our future generation will have to pay in greater price because of our ignorance.

Choose wisely and live healthily!