Soymilk – so wrong in so many ways
Don’t waste any brainpower wondering where raw milk fits in with the USDA MyPlate guidelines. It doesn’t, of course. It’s hard to imagine that the USDA or the FDA will ever recognize anything but pasteurized and homogenized mass market milk products.
But soymilk? Oh sure. According to the USDA, “Calcium-fortified soymilk (soy beverage) is also part of the Dairy Group.”
Have you ever heard anything more absurd? Raw milk is nonexistent as far as the USDA is concerned. But a bean that requires extensive processing to turn it into a completely phony “milk”? Sure. Our government calls that “dairy.”
The MyPlate website doesn’t mention organic soymilk. But there are those who claim the organic variety makes all the difference. If it’s genuinely organic, then the source plants haven’t been genetically modified and drenched in Roundup weed killer. And that obviously creates a healthier product. Still highly processed, but healthier.
But when I checked with Dr. Spreen about organic soymilk, he was having none of it.
Dr. Spreen gave me these three reasons why he believes you should never let soymilk pass your lips…
1) All soy today is a modified plant, nothing like what the ancient Japanese used (as a garnish, not a staple, unless it was fermented)
2) If unfermented, it contains protective (for the soybean) phytates that are nutrient blockers — obviously not smart for us
3) (The biggee) All soy is loaded with phytoestrogens, enough to do real harm to baby boys, who should never, EVER be given a single drop of the stuff, as they have no testosterone to fight it, and never given to baby girls as they end up with precocious puberty
Easy as 1, 2, 3.
