Tasty Veg Burgers

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Steve, for your update to the update. I thought this whole issue had come up before, and it's true:

On July 22, 2009, “Laurie Masters” wrote to ,

referring to an article by the Organic Consumers Association. The article

was a very similar commentary about the same Cornucopia Institute report, which was presented in May 2009; and there’s definitely some cloning going on here (with the reporting, that is)...

Ms. Masters's email header was “Another reason NOT to eat

tofu/soy” and her email stated:

>Hexane, a NASTY, neurotoxic petrochemical, is

used in the production of soy

>products.

 

> Lovely ...

 

>

 

> Laurie

Coincidence, or renewed anti-soy propaganda (as suggested in Vegansaurus)?

Cornucopia promotes organic farming and is heavy into organic

dairy and livestock (Board members and Policy Advisory Staff). Fair and balanced reporting?

If you're not sick of all this yet, here’s a follow-up article in Mother Jones, which

describes some backpedaling by Cornucopia's lead soy researcher, Vallaeys:

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/04/veggie-burgers-neurotoxin-hexane

Quotes from Vallaeys: " If the product is made with whole soy beans, which most regular tofu is, that's not hexane extracted. But some tofu companies are now coming out with a low-fat line of tofu, which is often done with hexane-extracted soy. "

It's not just soy-based oils either. Hexane is used to extract oils from corn and other plants, too. "

The bigger picture here is that hexane is being released into the atmosphere—since it's an air pollutant. It leads to smog, which is ground-level ozone, which leads to a whole bunch of health problems, like asthma in kids. These effects are very real. "

Soy long,Donna

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Steve Simitzis <steve wrote:

Check back on the Vegansaurus story and the comments. There's a correction. There's no evidence that the Cornucopia Institute is funded by the Weston A. Price Foundation, though the founder of Cornucopia does have ties to both WAPF and the organic dairy industry.

 

But regardless of who funds what, even the report itself admits that there's no evidence of any health risk caused by trace amounts of hexane in conventional soy. In fact, the amount of hexane remaining in a conventional veggie burger is no different than the air you breath.

-- All roads lead to vegan. Keep walking. -donna

[Guest guest]

Greetings, Donna.

 

If the quotation marks around my name are meant to imply that I may be a propagandist and not merely a health-minded individual, I am not. I'm a vegan freelance editor who lives in Marin. I just happen to prefer to avoid toxins when I am made aware of them ... even those that occur in minute amounts. If you look at all the gazillions of food chemicals and environmental pollutants and toxins with which we are assaulted every day in "minute amounts," they add up ... So I choose to avoid them. I prefer whole, unprocessed foods that require no package or label, almosts exclusively. I realize that others choose differently.

 

Laurie Masters, freelance editorPrecision Revision"I turn what you wrote into what you meant!www.GreenSongPress.org

 

 

 

 

 

- intheVeganhood

Steve Simitzis

Cc: SFBAVEG

Friday, April 16, 2010 7:53 AM

Re: Re: Tasty Veg Burgers

Thanks, Steve, for your update to the update. I thought this whole issue had come up before, and it's true:

 

On July 22, 2009, “Laurie Masters” wrote to , referring to an article by the Organic Consumers Association. The article was a very similar commentary about the same Cornucopia Institute report, which was presented in May 2009; and there’s definitely some cloning going on here (with the reporting, that is)...

Ms. Masters's email header was “Another reason NOT to eat tofu/soy” and her email stated:

>Hexane, a NASTY, neurotoxic petrochemical, is used in the production of soy>products.> Lovely ...>> Laurie

Coincidence, or renewed anti-soy propaganda (as suggested in Vegansaurus)?

Cornucopia promotes organic farming and is heavy into organic dairy and livestock (Board members and Policy Advisory Staff). Fair and balanced reporting?

If you're not sick of all this yet, here’s a follow-up article in Mother Jones, which describes some backpedaling by Cornucopia's lead soy researcher, Vallaeys:

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/04/veggie-burgers-neurotoxin-hexane

Quotes from Vallaeys:

"If the product is made with whole soy beans, which most regular tofu is, that's not hexane extracted. But some tofu companies are now coming out with a low-fat line of tofu, which is often done with hexane-extracted soy."

It's not just soy-based oils either. Hexane is used to extract oils from corn and other plants, too."

The bigger picture here is that hexane is being released into the atmosphere—since it's an air pollutant. It leads to smog, which is ground-level ozone, which leads to a whole bunch of health problems, like asthma in kids. These effects are very real."

Soy long,

Donna

 

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Steve Simitzis <steve (AT) saturn5 (DOT) com> wrote:

Check back on the Vegansaurus story and the comments. There's a correction. There's no evidence that the Cornucopia Institute is funded by the Weston A. Price Foundation, though the founder of Cornucopia does have ties to both WAPF and the organic dairy industry.But regardless of who funds what, even the report itself admits that there's no evidence of any health risk caused by trace amounts of hexane in conventional soy. In fact, the amount of hexane remaining in a conventional veggie burger is no different than the air you breath.

-- All roads lead to vegan. Keep walking. -donna

[Guest guest]

Hi Laurie,yay, i'm so glad (and relieved) that you are a real, concerned citizen. thanks so much for responding! if you know of any peer-reviewed scientific study that shows there are any residues of hexane, minute or not, on any soy products, i'd love to read it.

DonnaOn Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Laurie Masters <lauriem wrote:

 

Greetings, Donna.

 

If the quotation marks around my name are meant to imply that I may be a propagandist and not merely a health-minded individual, I am not. I'm a vegan freelance editor who lives in Marin. I just happen to prefer to avoid toxins when I am made aware of them ... even those that occur in minute amounts. If you look at all the gazillions of food chemicals and environmental pollutants and toxins with which we are assaulted every day in " minute amounts, " they add up ... So I choose to avoid them. I prefer whole, unprocessed foods that require no package or label, almosts exclusively. I realize that others choose differently.

 

Laurie Masters, freelance editorPrecision Revision " I turn what you wrote into what you meant!www.GreenSongPress.org  

 

 

 

 

 

- intheVeganhood

Steve Simitzis

Cc: SFBAVEG

Friday, April 16, 2010 7:53 AM

Re: Re: Tasty Veg Burgers

 

 

 

Thanks, Steve, for your update to the update. I thought this whole issue had come up before, and it's true:

 

On July 22, 2009, “Laurie Masters” wrote to , referring to an article by the Organic Consumers Association. The article was a very similar commentary about the same Cornucopia Institute report, which was presented in May 2009; and there’s definitely some cloning going on here (with the reporting, that is)...

Ms. Masters's email header was “Another reason NOT to eat tofu/soy” and her email stated:

>Hexane, a NASTY, neurotoxic petrochemical, is used in the production of soy>products.

> Lovely ...>

> Laurie

Coincidence, or renewed anti-soy propaganda (as suggested in Vegansaurus)?

Cornucopia promotes organic farming and is heavy into organic dairy and livestock (Board members and Policy Advisory Staff). Fair and balanced reporting?

If you're not sick of all this yet, here’s a follow-up article in Mother Jones, which describes some backpedaling by Cornucopia's lead soy researcher, Vallaeys:

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/04/veggie-burgers-neurotoxin-hexane

Quotes from Vallaeys:

" If the product is made with whole soy beans, which most regular tofu is, that's not hexane extracted. But some tofu companies are now coming out with a low-fat line of tofu, which is often done with hexane-extracted soy. "

It's not just soy-based oils either. Hexane is used to extract oils from corn and other plants, too. "

The bigger picture here is that hexane is being released into the atmosphere—since it's an air pollutant. It leads to smog, which is ground-level ozone, which leads to a whole bunch of health problems, like asthma in kids. These effects are very real. "

Soy long,

Donna

 

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Steve Simitzis <steve wrote:

Check back on the Vegansaurus story and the comments. There's a correction. There's no evidence that the Cornucopia Institute is funded by the Weston A. Price Foundation, though the founder of Cornucopia does have ties to both WAPF and the organic dairy industry.But regardless of who funds what, even the report itself admits that there's no evidence of any health risk caused by trace amounts of hexane in conventional soy. In fact, the amount of hexane remaining in a conventional veggie burger is no different than the air you breath.

-- All roads lead to vegan. Keep walking. -donna

 

 

 

-- All roads lead to vegan. Keep walking. -donna