I tend to avoid soy due to it’s GMO connections and the fact that is is destroying the Amazon with it’s plantations.

I too was on a spiritual path and became vegan BUT only ate whole foods and no ‘human made’ food sources. I became nutritionally sick and now have chronic nerve damage due to severe B12 deficiency and lack of Vitamin D. Unfortunately my diet was limited due to financial restraints with no vitamins or minerals for support or affordability for organic foods. Organic foods are also restricted in the South West England countryside!!!

I believe that any food eaten should be in moderation and a varied diet to bring in as much of a variety of nutrition as possible from organic sources. I became a meat eater again too. Also I read that the Dalil Lama eats meat. Again if we do it needs to be from a source whereby the animal has a good quality of life and is fed naturally and organically.

Your choice, your body and your life. But please try to make conscious choices for you and our planet’s lifeforms.

Hi Mary! You are absolutely right! I am a born again Christian as well and I am with you on that!

Ann! Thank you so much for sharing this!

I’m not a doctor, but for nearly 45 yrs. have studied nutrition and natural healing; I’ve got a library of books (of course, many now are outdated) and had learned so many wonderful ways to stay healthy, eating real food, exercising, some supplements, and avoiding medicines. As online health sites became more readily available, I was fortunate to find a few with wonderful up-to-date information which can be trusted and keeps me learning all the time. Sarah, thehealthyhomeeconomist always has excellent, detailed information and although it may not be what you want to hear, she’s usually right. Anya is another gal I’ve come to trust who offers lots of good advice and alerts about unhealthy things.

Back to the soy milk, tofu, Edamame, etc. If you check the above link, it should be enough proof about soy products that are promoted as being healthy. I’m hypothyroid, with stressed adrenals, so was truly thankful to have quit the soymilk when I did, after becoming aware of the hazards. There are other doctors online with the correct advice about soy products, although there is one who still promotes eating tofu and other soy products. But he also uses sugar, white flour, canola, and other unhealthy items. I think the posters above who disagree here need to do more research. For any readers who see this, and are still new with looking into a healthy lifestyle, please don’t fall for the naysayers above, and research for yourselves to find the truth.

Sorry this is so long and this may be a bit off topic, but those looking for milk alternatives, it’s so quick and easy to make coconut milk with shredded, dried, organic coconut and water, and also nut milks. (Nuts should be soaked first to remove the enzyme inhibitors and phytic acid.)

Anya you have me on your side – its not propaganda! Its bullsh*t – and soy is the worse product you can ever eat for your body – you are better off eating meat but if you don’t want to that is human’s choice being vegans or vegetarians(which I use to be vegetarian but haven’t been for 6 yrs now as I went back to eating meat) and yes, I’m a total animal lover of all animals but I also am very spiritual and believe not only in God & Christ but also study the Word of God daily and He told us what animals we can eat so I went back to eating meat anyway – as I wasn’t getting enough protein in my diet