What Is Soy Lecithin Why Is it in Everything You Buy?

Real Lecithin Or Sludge?

Lecithin was named by Maurice Gobley, a French scientist, in 1805.  It's name comes from the Greek word"lekithos"  which means egg yolk, and the egg yolk was the primary source of lecithin.  It was a Healthy, natural food.

Lecithin was valued for the fat water soluble compounds called phospholipids which are essential to our health and play a direct and vital role in every aspect of our health, including metabolism, memory, cognitive function, cardiovascular and liver function.

Phospholipids are essential fat and water soluble molecules found in our cellular structure.  They are a combination of lipids  (fats)  and the mineral phosphorous.  It's impossible for any of our cells to function optimally without phospholipids.  They are that critical.

Soy Lecithin begins as a vile, toxic,    Foul Smelling Sludge.  After the war of 1812 American Whiskey distilleries began production.  Alcohol production resulted in large amounts of wasted grain.

They turned their expensive distillery waste disposal problem into profit.  You can read more about the story behind  16 million tons of distillers grains and fuel ethanol waste   being fed to our dairy & beef cattle.  Got Milk?

Around 1908 German companies were suffering similar waste disposal problems from their soybean oil refining industries.

What could they do with the ever increasing mountains of that foul smelling sludge?  Ever inventive and not to be out done, the European companies patented the process of creating soybean lecithin.

Soy lecithin is created from the gummy industrial hexane extracted soy oil waste product. It's full of chemical solvents, and pesticides, is bleached to a more appealing color and is marketed as Healthy Soy Lecithin to unsuspecting consumers worldwide.

Their shrewd hired gun scientists brewed up thousands of uses by 1939.  You are seeing these products everyday in your supermarket, particularly in the Natural Food Section, where you can pay a premium price for toxins!

We have the European initiative & genius to thank for Soy Lecithin being in our food supply for over 100 years and others to thank for it being unavoidable in processed foods and in things that you would never imagine, including Organic.

You see, we have the USDA Organic Certification to thank for that.  Currently the USDA allows around 275 synthetic chemicals in the production, manufacturing, processing or end   "organic"  product.

If there is no organic equivalent for toxins such as Soy Lecithin, then it can magically be called Organic.  So if there is no organic Mercury, Mercury and anything else can also be included in USDA Organic products.  In fact, the duplicious USDA is also pushing Organic Standards to include GMO!

Not exactly natural is it?  And no labeling requirement showing those chemicals, so there's no way of knowing which chemicals you're buying!  By accident or design?

Phospholipid Level Comparisons

Egg Yolks  have 30% phospholipid levels, free range have substantially more than industrial eggs

goat & sheep milk  have phospholipids levels of 30-50% depending on the species, feed and season

Cow milk  around 20%+, if they're fed slop those numbers are drastially reduced

Buffalo milk  30%+ but it's not readily available and they run pretty fast

Human Breast Milk  32%

Camel milk  around 35% and not readily available in US markets

Soybean oil  ranges from 1.48 to 3.08%, ridiculously low isn't it?  Yet they brag!

Other vegetable oils   have around .05%, pathetically low and not considered  healthy oils

So, how did Soy measure up in Phospholipid Levels when comparing itself to essential nutrients of real foods? 

Soy Lecithin Today

Almost all phospholipid supplements are soy based, some are bovine.  Read the labels or wouldn't  Raw Goat Milk be a much healthier choice?  I drink it daily!

Soy lecithin is insidious, it's used as an emulsifier to keep water & fats from separating in processed food like substances such as margarine and other hydrogenated products.  It's in peanut butter, candies, chocolate, dressings, teas, cereals, ice cream, artificial coffee creamers, infant formulas, mayonnaise, and just about anything you can think of.

"Contains Soy"  is found on many products because even trace amounts of soy protein can trigger severe allergic reactions and minute traces remain in all soy products, even fermented.

Personally, my dollars don't vote for anything that has Soy in it.  I've stopped buying many different organic products because someone convinced them to slip soy lecithin into their product.

Wny not take the time to send them a later telling them why you won't be buying, and why you'll do your best to spread the word?  Just because today your favorite product doesn't have it, doesn't mean that tomorrow or next week or next year that they wont slip it in.  I find it in Organic Teas!  Now, why does an emulsifier need to be in tea?

Soy's Environmental Destruction

If you're using soy for sustainability or environmental reasons, you have made the wrong choice. There is nothing more environmentally destructive than Soybean plantations.  The world wide figures for soybean plantings keep rising, are spoken of in the millions of acres and are truly unfathomable.

The US, Brazil and Argentina count for 80% of the world wide soybean production.  Brazil has taken the lead over the US since about 2004.  80% of the global soybean crop is used for animal feed, remember it's the meal left over after the oil has been extracted.  South America ships 60% of it's GMO soy to Europe for animals that Europeans will eat, including all of the pesticides in the soy.

US Soy Production

Soybeans  78.1 million acres, with 12.5 million just for Soy Bio Diesel.  95% of all soy is GMO.
Corn  88.8 million acres of which about 90% is GMO
wheat  53.83 million acres, The USDA is considering GMO wheat

Can you begin to imagine the multiple, toxic pesticides associated with the GMO and what those millions of acres could be planted in instead?

Here are but a few examples of what 1 acre produces:  

corn  18 gallons of oil~ GMO
cottonseed  35 gallons oil ~ GMO
soybean   48 gallons oil~ GMO
Hemp seed  1,800 gallons + 6,000 lbs high protein flour & no pesticides required for hemp
Palm  635 gallons
Music garlic  13,400 + lbs

South American Soy

While the Amazon is the world's largest rain forest it is also the home to about 25 million people including many indigenous tribes.  The Amazon region is as large as the 48 US states, touches eight South American countries and represents about 40% of the total land mass in South America.

Ranchers and land squatters are driving Amazonian deforestation to satisfy that insatiable demand for soy.  Soy plantations push traditional farmers further into the forest, destroying more rain forests and transitional forests.

Most of the soy is exported to feed meat and dairy animals, who are not biologically equipped to eat grains.  Soy is also included in many  dog & cat foods,  causing further health disorders, as these animals are also not equipped to eat grains.

There are more than 105,000 miles of illegal roads in the Amazon.  There is the BR-163, known as the Soy Highway, running 1,100 miles deep into the Amazon.  Soy plantations blanket the landscape, wildlife destroyed, forests destroyed, entire indigenous populations displaced.  Just fleets of John Deere combines, illegal roads, pesticides & GMO.

The indigenous Amazonian Indians have been protesting for years, unheard by the world, and massacred by their governments or Ranchers.  Activists face intimidation at best or death because of Agi Industry.