Soy Tyranny Video

Soy Tryanny The Tyranny of Soy Agribusiness in Paraguay tells how Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and a series of Brazilians agribusinesses are flexing their muscles in Paraguay, currently occupying 25% of all arable land for the production of genetically modified soy for export.

"The losers are Paraguay's peasant farmers, and they've mobilized to defend themselves, including getting a president into power who promised to help them."

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.

The Not So Great Land Grab For Soy Expansion

Sunday, 22 September 2013 11:01

This article is an excerpt from Food First’s Land & Sovereignty Series. Click here to download the full report. In the last two decades, the best agricultural lands in Bolivia have been put into commercial production by large-scale producers closely linked to foreign investors, particularly Brazilians. Foreigners now control more than one million hectares of prime agricultural and ranching lands in Bolivia, primarily in the eastern lowland department of Santa Cruz, an important agro-export region dominated by transnational corporations. While the initial migration of Brazilian investors to Bolivia began in the 1980s, Bolivian liberalization policies in the 1990s facilitated access to inexpensive and fertile lands. The department of Santa Cruz has been the primary target for Brazilian investors, where they achieved a much higher profit margin than in Brazil because of the low price of land; the low price and easy convertibility of the US dollar as the currency of transaction; and the extremely low rate of taxation on land and exports. State subsidies and the “freezing” of the price of diesel for the last two decades were also central to the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Santa Cruz. Since 1990, the area of cultivation in Santa Cruz has expanded from slightly over 400,000 hectares to more than two million hectares in 2011. Since 2005, a new round of Brazilian land investments in Santa Cruz has emerged, this time for ranching. There are currently approximately seven million head of cattle in Bolivia, three million (or 40 percent) of which are located in Santa Cruz. Pressure is mounting to expand both soybean production and ranching operations into forested areas. According to the Regulatory Agency for the Social Control of Forests and Lands, 3.3 million hectares of forest have been illegally deforested in Bolivia between 1996 and 2009 alone. The environmental degradation of the eastern lowlands has caused several micro-climatic changes in the region, increasing water stress. In the Santa Cruz province of Velasco, water is often controlled by cattle ranchers who dam brooks to water their cattle. Indigenous farming communities living downstream claim that their streams no longer run except in very wet years, leaving them without water. Despite President Evo Morales’ political discourse against the latifundio (large landholdings), the state has not done much to hinder foreign direct investment in land. And foreign agribusiness has found ways to circumvent existing regulations, influence political power within Bolivia, and tap into longstanding discrimination against indigenous people in the name of regional development.  Existing regulations regarding land rights and titling in Bolivia—including the Law of Community Reorientation of Agrarian Reform of 2006 and the new constitution of 2009— permit the free sale and purchase of lands between private parties, irrespective of their nationality as long as the area does not exceed 5,000 hectares. However, in order to bypass regulations and obtain bank loans (which require a proven permanent presence in the country) many of Brazilians have married Bolivian citizens or created companies through associations of Bolivian citizens that (for the most part) exist only on paper. Foreign investors also benefit from underlying forms of regionalism and discrimination that are pervasive in Bolivia. For example, Bolivian and Brazilian large-scale producers in the eastern lowlands have a kind of “ethnic pact” which identifies indigenous (Quechua and Aymara) peasant settlers from the highlands as their common enemy. Peasants are blamed for various social ills, including cocaine production and narco-trafficking; deforestation; and indiscriminate “slash and burn” agriculture. These negative perceptions—particularly among the middle classes of Santa Cruz—are mirrored by a favorable view of foreigners. Indeed, the foreign presence in Santa Cruz is highly regarded and even sought-out as a means of making lands more “productive” and attracting capital, technology, employment, market knowledge, inputs and genetically modified seeds. Foreign control over land and resources for industrial agriculture and ranching is also undermining regional and national food security. Despite increased agricultural production in the eastern lowlands—and the Morales administration’s attempts to promote greater domestic food production—Bolivia’s food supply remains precarious. The country imported a record $1.1 billion in food between 2006-2010 (over 600,000 tons in 2009 alone). While food imports maintain domestic price stability and satisfy the increasing urban demand, they discourage domestic production, in particular, that of smallholder farmers. Meanwhile, the great majority of the profits obtained by foreigners in the commercial soy and ranching sectors are repatriated to their country of origin—particularly Brazil and Argentina—while little is reinvested in Bolivia. The benefits of the great soy expansion in Bolivia are concentrated in the hands of a small population of mostly foreign agrarian elites, with substantial environmental and social costs and arguably few benefits to the country. Miguel Urioste F. de C. is Senior Researcher at Fundación Tierra

Brazail GMO Crops Suffering Massive Caterpillar Plague

GM Watch

The Brazilian ministry of agricultural development is warning farmers that GM Bt crops, pesticides, and monocultures are responsible for the plague of caterpillars that is devastating the country's agriculture.

The ministry is advising family farmers whose farms are close to GM crops and monocultures to take preventive measures. The ministry adds that the areas best protected from the pest are those growing a mixture of non-GM and non-Bt crops and native vegetation.
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MDA [Ministry of Agricultural Development] warns farmers on appearance of the Helicoverpa caterpillar in crops

Ministry of Agricultural Development (Brazil), 9 Aug 2013
http://portal.mda.gov.br/portal/noticias/item?item_id=13900955

GMWatch translation from the Portuguese, shortened

Farmers from all parts of Brazil should be aware of a pest that can damage crops. Due to inadequate farming practices associated with the excessive use of pesticides and transgenic Bt plants, the incidence of the bollworm Helicoverpa armigera has grown. This caterpillar has a complex structure with high adaptability and can attack crops and native plants in several regions of the country.

The occurrence of Helicoverpa, mainly in the Brazilian Cerrado region, was observed from February last year. Serious economic losses were recorded on cotton fields in western Bahia, and other crops and regions were also affected. According to the general coordinator of Risk Management and Rural Security of the Office for Family Farming of the Ministry of Agrarian Development (SAF/MDA), José Carlos Zukowski, the biggest problem occurs in areas of extensive monoculture - vast expanses of the same type of plant.

"Where there have been big advances of monoculture and the intensive use of pesticides, there are no suitable conditions to develop insect predators that fight the caterpillar, which would be a form of natural biological control. Where there is a mixture of different crops, non-transgenic crops without the Bt toxin and native vegetation, there is just no space for the predators to develop, which are important to combat the plague [of caterpillars]," he explains.

There is no record of major attacks by this caterpillar on family farms. But Zukowski highlights that producers should be vigilant, especially those who are close to large monoculture crops with pesticides or GMOs.

The general coordinator of the Department of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension of the MDA (Ater), Everton Ferreira, teaches some practices in case of attack. "First, seek the advice of the local Ater office. The farmer should always seek technical guidance, take samples, and discover the extent of the problem," he advises.

Another guideline is planning the cultivation area, paying attention to some aspects such as planting date, biological control, and refuge areas (for those using transgenic plants with Bt toxins, the refuge area may be a neighbouring crop of the same or similar species, without the Bt toxin and without application of the associated pesticides).

As there are as yet no significant occurrences of Helicoverpa on family farms, Everton explains that this work is preventive. This is where continuous monitoring of pests comes in, one of the ways to combat pests. But, in cases where a farmer is affected, Everton says that the MDA has partnerships and agreements with entities with technical assistance that can help him confront the problem. "If the farmer does not find a technician or office in your county, you can look in the next county. The service is free," he adds.

Biological control

Zukowski warns family farmers about the use of agrotoxics to control the caterpillar Helicoverpa armigera. The producer must seek, above all, the guidance of an Ater technician, because depending on the degree of infestation and other conditions of the crop, it is possible to implement a biological control.

This caterpillar easily acquires resistance to pesticides. "Simply using these products tends to generate greater resistance. There may even be an effect of combatting [the pest] at first, but then it becomes ineffective. So you must use integrated management to combat this plague," he says. It is recommended to seek coordinated action in the community, because the isolated action of one farmer may not be enough...

NOTE:  This is due to the horrendous soy plantations.   Learn the awful truth about Soy