Comments on: Food Wars: Governmental Programs & Industrial Food

By: Tamar

Tamar — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:11:39 +0000

“When food became industrialized it was given over to capitalism, which in my opinion is in a lot of ways evil. ” So socialism would be better?! No, it would be worse because all of us would be imprisoned and force fed this soy garbage. Only in a capitalist system do we have any kind of freedom of choice at all.
As far as the prisoners are concerned, we do need to fight for them. As far as the pilot school programs are concerned, parents do have a choice to make their children’s lunches rather then dumping them on the school to feed.

By: acai fire scam

acai fire scam — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:29:46 +0000

Your post really made a big impact on my knowledge about soy. I was shocked about this revelation and pitied the prisoners and little children. How I wish the government act about this before it is too late.

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By: Cindy Merrill

Cindy Merrill — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:34:51 +0000

Treat someone like an animal, and they’ll leave prison worse than an animal.
On a futuristic SCi-fi show, Babylon 5, prisoners were sentenced to Death of personality: All memories were wiped out of their minds then they were transported to distant locations, given new identification and carefully “rehabilitated”.
Not a bad idea, really: Would save taxpayers Billions.

By: Publicist Notes on the Soy Prison Case | Hartke Is Online!

Publicist Notes on the Soy Prison Case | Hartke Is Online! — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:42:08 +0000

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By: mark mcafee

mark mcafee — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:16:00 +0000

Soy…soy…soy.

Great for biodiesel ( maybe not even that great for biodiesel either )…horrible for humans.

The dairy industry really screwed-up for letting the soy guys use the word “milk” to describe their toxic white stuff. It could have all stopped years ago if the dairy industry had stood-up and said…..beans don’t have teats…cows do!!! So never use the word milk to describe bean juice. But that did not happen.

Why…because the same industry that owns the dairy commerce owns the soy commerce. So…Why would they.

They are all so disconnected from their consumers, they only care about one thing….lots of money and using the massive overproduction of soy in the highest valued added products.

Makes me sick to think of this disaster. All the illness all the messed up people. All the sick kids. When people could not drink pastuerized milk they drank soy….when in fact they did not have Lactose intolerance with raw milk!!! What a circular man made greedy mess.

We get hundreds of ex-soy consumers coming to us in CA with lumps in their breasts and thyroid disorders….they are all very angery with the lies they were told.

Now they drink raw organic milk from grass fed cows and recover from their date with lies and nutritional disaster.

Mark McAfee
Founder OPDC

By: Industrialization of Culture – Part One (Soy) « A Mountain Mama

Industrialization of Culture – Part One (Soy) « A Mountain Mama — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:22:33 +0000

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By: Fran

Fran — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:21:35 +0000

O…M…G! Yep, that sounds like our former Gov. B. Just once, I want to vote FOR someone, not to keep an even worse choice out of office.
Dana is so right–what you eat has a huge impact on how you feel and how you function. I wonder how many people wouldn’t be incarcerated or in psychiatric facilities just because of what they eat.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:34:19 +0000

It is this kind of stuff that really makes me upset. When food became industrialized it was given over to capitalism, which in my opinion is in a lot of ways evil. There is nothing wholesome about that. It makes me angry not only would they give this food to men in need of rehabilitation… and we know prisons are also homes for the mentally ill, but they would give it to growing children.
I took a look at the yogurt section in the grocery at the “kids” yogurt. One brand Breyer’s had 3 types of refined sugars in it! They are selling this as a healthy food. Insane! It had Winnie the Pooh on it. It’s money is all it is.
Thanks Jenny for passing this info along.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:43:47 +0000

Oh, and I want to be very clear I’m not just accepting some prisoners’ rights outfit’s “excuses” about why offenders offend. I do not have a criminal history, but I do know what it’s like to be mentally ill, and I have experienced for myself how diet makes a difference in that. I still have some quirks that annoy me and people around me, but I am now functional. I went through a patch of varying degrees of badness from about ’98 to about 2007 or so when I could not always say that about myself.

Just changing my diet made a huge difference. And I know what it’s like to be off the deep end and not entirely in control of oneself. Been there. Done that. My T-shirt went on backwards and had buckles.

So I’d love to be able to say that mental illness is just shamming or that we should be able to control our minds as well as our bodies ’cause we’re just Beings Of Light Riding In A Meat Clown Car after all… but that is not my experience. My mind is me, and how well my mind works depends on how well I take care of me. These guys are at the absolute mercy of the system and they will be blamed every time the system fails them, just like I was blamed when others failed me, because I couldn’t know how to take care of myself properly when no one bothered to tell me.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:37:39 +0000

The worst part of this, next to the human rights violations, is that a lot of these guys in prison were probably violent in the first place at least in part due to malnutrition. Violent behavior is a symptom of deficiency of several of the B vitamins, and poor nutrition leads to neurochemical imbalances in other ways. So they’re going to compound the problem by malnourishing these poor people while they are behind bars–and most of them are not serving life sentences! They’re going to be out sooner or later. You would think that if people didn’t care about prisoners’ rights, they’d at least care about the rights of the rest of us who have to be neighbors and co-workers with these guys once they’re free again. Nah… thinking’s hard.

I can’t help wondering how much of this is about propping up the prison industry, especially its private sector–when these guys can’t make it on the outside ’cause their prison diet screwed them up, then they’ll have to go back in, plus add in all the new guys coming up from juvie, and then it will be claimed we “must” build more prisons, but the state is broke… enter CCD or one of those other horrific outfits that routinely abuse prisoners in ways the public prison system never even thought of in modern times. I used to work relatively near a private prison that was located in Mason, TN and in the several months I was there–not even a year!–we had not one but two escapes involving violent criminals, and both times they headed in the direction of my mall. In a private juvenile prison in the same area, a boy tried to kill himself and almost succeeded. He’s paralyzed now. All they could offer his mother was stupid excuses. That’s where Illinois is headed if they don’t nip this in the bud.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:27:44 +0000

I echo your thoughts on this too, Amy. My fear is that people will shrug their shoulders because the victims in this instance are largely prisoners – and most of the American public couldn’t care less about their welfare or lack thereof. The real disconcerting aspect is how politicians and the big agricultural giants work together for their own fiscal benefit rather than for their constituents / consumers. That aspect of a broken system isn’t going to end with Illinois prisons and a pilot school lunch program.