Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[bennyboy]

JG, soy is toxic to humans and other animals. It's not a natural product at all and I don't know why you're appealing to it.

Furthermore, those with allergies against soy products as I've mentioned earlier cannot eat (almost) any processed foods - 1. because soy is added to most processed foods and 2. because it doesn't have to be labelled and they have to make the assumption that unless otherwise stated it contains soy.

So no, you cannot use soy as an example because you only find it in processed foods and if you ate it raw you'd be sick.

Can you give me a guarantee that soy is safe or healthy? No you can't. No one can. We might well find in the years to come that soy is looked down upon as a filthy carcinogen, the fact of the matter is that at the moment ignorance is bliss and just like the tobacco industry, the food industry isn't exactly wanting to find out that soy is a bad product.

If you have an ethical responsibility when it comes to food it is to: eat healthy. All other considerations, environmental, animal welfare, etc, are secondary concerns nothing should come before your own health when it comes to food.

I don't think so. Tofu has been consumed for many centuries, and soya milk for many decades at least. There have a been a few claims that consumption of very great amounts of soy products have led to feminization in men (which reverted when the products were stopped). However, there have been many MORE issues with milk allergies, with hormones fed to milk cows or meat animals, etc.

This kind of hysterical appeal to ignorance can be applied to absolutely any food or product except maybe fresh water-- Google "______ made me sick," and you'll find some cases of people who react aversely to broccoli, spinach, and apples. But taking those anecdotes and trying to generalize them to an idea like "We should eat meat, and not broccoli," would be irrational and wrong.