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bag in a cool spot in the woods. SOY LAWSUIT 2011. The trial has enormous implica-
We age our beef for twenty-one Thank you so much for filing a tions for all institutions, not just prisons
days. Our USDA butcher does it in a lawsuit on behalf of Illinois inmates but also schools, nursing homes, and
large refrigerator at temperatures be- regarding the soy foods they are forced hospitals throughout the U.S. We have
tween 33-35 degrees. External fat cover to eat. My husband is incarcerated and excellent legal help, but legal work is
prevents spoilage. The butcher told us both he and I adamantly avoid soy when- expensive. Donations to this cause are
he doesn’t have another grassfed beef ever possible. I send him a great deal of much needed and most welcome. (They
producer who can get nearly enough fat money so that he can buy food at the are also tax deductible. Checks should
cover on their beef to make them eligible commissary and cook in his cell instead be made out to the Weston A. Price
for aging twenty-one days. Seven to of eating the dangerous soy chow. I feel Foundation/Soy Alert! Campaign.)
fourteen days is much more common very bad for the many inmates whose
with small grassfed producers and wet loved ones cannot afford to do this. SOY AND ASBESTOS
aging is the process used for industrially I’m sure you’re aware that the prison I like your comparison of soy to
produced meats. Last year we were able staff is also offered this food, which asbestos. I see the day coming when soy
to even go twenty-eight days dry aged probably explains why most bring their will be just as discredited as tobacco,
on some pieces. own meals. and just as much of a litigation issue as
We are able to get this fat cover I’d like to add that the prison visiting asbestos. The soy prison case is getting
because of the way we manage our beef room vending machines are also full of more and more publicity, and the letter
herd. We only harvest our steers in the soy. Of course it’s impossible to know writing campaign you started will get
spring after the peak of the grass season, what’s in a sandwich until you’ve bought attention. This has really helped my
when the animals are between fourteen it, because of the deceptive labeling. efforts to get the people I know to stop
to eighteen months of age. We raise I hate the fact that the USDA allows using soy.
small-framed Angus-influenced cattle. food manufacturers to label a sandwich Thank you so much for bringing this
We have worked very hard to find top “beef patty” when it contains TVP and issue into the light of day.
quality genetics that finish on grass, not soy. The “charbroil” contains no meat Stanley Fishman
from the giant breeds designed to eat a at all—what a joke! I sent a complaint Danville, California
feedlot diet. Animals grow their bone to the USDA about the “beef patty”
structure first, muscle next, and put on sandwich, sent links to the vendor’s nu- NONDISCLOSURE
fat last. We time their births so that they tritional info, but have had no response It took the National Institutes of
are of the right age to finish—that is, yet. Health (NIH) from 1946 to 1971 to warn
to put on fat—when the grasses are the What a shameful state our food about severely damaging health effects
most abundant and are the most nutri- supply is in. No wonder we’ve got an epi- caused by the synthetic estrogen DES,
tious. We don’t try to finish animals ten demic of cardiovascular disease, obesity, even though a Freedom of Information
months of the year on crummy irrigated and other preventable conditions. Thank request disclosed knowledge of tragic
pasture like many other ranchers do in you so much. I will be donating to your DES estrogen health results decades
these parts. Here in the West with the organization! prior to the disclosure. It took the NIH
high heat and dry summers, most ir- Sandra Van Maren from 1942 to 1972 to report that Estro-
rigated pasture does not produce good Chicago, Illinois gen Replacement Therapy (ERT) causes
meat, in our opinion. uterine cancer within six months to one
Chris Kerston Thank you for this expression of sup- year after implementation. It took the
Chaffin Family Orchards port. Our soy lawsuit is going forward NIH six decades, from 1942 to 2002, to
Oroville, California and we expect the trial to take place in allow release of information showing the

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