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“If the soy disagrees with you, don’t eat it. Buy soy is to save money. But according to one court case, “A lack of financing
food from the commissary.” And since most of is not a defense to a failure to satisfy minimum constitutional standards
the inmates cannot afford to purchase food from in prisons” (Duran v. Anaya, 642, Supp. 510 (DNM 1986), page 525,
the commissary, they are faced with a choice of paragraph 6).
serious health problems or starvation. Several And it is not clear that the soy diet is saving the state of Illinois any
have had sections of their colons removed when money, not when you consider the greatly increased medical costs that have
a simple return to a nutritious, soy-free diet ensued, and the risk to the state of costly lawsuits. The state of Virginia
would have solved the problem. One inmate who provides grass-fed beef to inmates at no cost to the state. Low-risk prison-
passes out whenever he consumes soy was given ers raise the beef at Sky Meadows State Park. The surplus is sold to the
a pacemaker. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, resulting in a net gain for the
Several inmates have filed lawsuits. One prison budget. All over the country prisons are instituting creative ways
inmate has been subjected to illegal and life- to save money while teaching inmates new skills, including gardening,
threatening retaliatory actions as a result of his animal husbandry, beekeeping, food processing, composting and recycling.
filing two lawsuits claiming inadequate medical Only the state of Illinois has chosen to poison its prisoners instead.
care. Pro bono legal help is urgently needed for It is said that a nation is judged on the way it treats its prisoners. The
these cases. American prison system is predicated on the premise that criminals can
According to law, prisoners are entitled to be rehabilitated. To feed prisoners a diet that can permanently ruin their
“nutritionally adequate food” (Ramos v Lamm, health robs them of any opportunity for rehabilitation, renders them unfit
639.2d 559, 1980). According to Illinois law, “In- for normal life when they are released, and will impose an unnecessary
fliction of unnecessary suffering on prisoner by burden on the state’s medical services. It constitutes a medical experiment
failure to treat his medical needs is inconsistent and amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which must be stopped.
with contemporary standards of decency and Mr. Obama, you can stop this cruel soy-feeding experiment with one
violates the Eighth Amendment” (Key Note 7. phone call. I urge you to be that champion of fairness and justice that you
Criminal Law 1213). promised during your campaign by making that call.
The justification for the switch from beef to Sally Fallon, President, The Weston A. Price Foundation

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