And no this is not the typical comment you might expect, telling you soy bad for your health and bashing vegetarians (I have no problem with vegetarians). Even though, yes, despite your contradictions, there is significant evidence that soy, in certain amounts over an extended time period, is bad for your health and especially so for children.

But I digress, and I don’t want to put you off the main reason I’m writing this … please bare with me:

No, what I want to tell you is that today, in 2010, where the environment is of extreme concern, Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of soy globally. Why is this a problem? Deforestation (the destruction of the rain forests – the lungs of our planet) to make way for soy plantations to feed an ever increasing demand globally.

This fact should be of grave concern to every human being who cares, or professes to care, for the environment, themselves and their fellow man and nature. Especially when purchasing a product that contains some form of soy in its ingredients list (it is impossible nowadays to find products that don’t contain soy).

In an insidious fashion, the large food corporations have turned soy and its many so-called “healthy” by-products into the “high fructose corn syrup” of our day. I challenge you to walk through the aisles of any store, pick up random items and read through the ingredients – you will be shocked! Where soy was never on ingredients lists, even as recently as two years ago, it has now become common place!

All I’m saying is “be aware”.

You can read about deforestation in the Amazon (those forests are the lungs of our planet) by simply typing in the key-words “amazon deforestation soy”.

Thanks for listening!