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soaked oats. I usually set the oats I want There is nothing harmful in the long soy products? And when and where does
for the next day to soak the night before. soaking, especially if the porridge is it all end? It seems nothing is virtually
Recently I got a very good yogurt cul- cooked. Most traditional cultures soak soy free, from the plants, vegetables,
ture (a great place to get a really strong grains at least two days, which results fruits, meats, fish, crustaceans and all
culture is from Indian folks, they have in a porridge that is too sour for most their foods they eat/absorb.
cultures that continue on and on, unlike western palates. Sonja Della Vecchia
commercial yogurt, or powdered yogurt Mandurah, Western Australia
starters) and have been using the whey SOY POLLUTION
from that in my oats as they soak. I am trying to avoid all soy and The animals probably neutralize the
The other day I put the oats to soak, looking into to setting up my own Aqua- phytic acid and enzyme inhibitors in
but the next morning we went out to ponics system, but as I’m suspicious of soy, but some isoflavones remain. For
breakfast so we didn’t use the oats. The anything that is manufactured, I looked example, there are isoflavones in the
oats therefore soaked a second day and into the fish ration that you are supposed yolks of soy-fed chickens. In pigs soy has
then when I went to use them I noticed to feed the fish in your system. I was caused infertility, but it is put in the feed
a pleasant yeasty smell so I cooked shocked and horrified that 80 percent of of the neutered pigs. So our concerns
them anyway and ate a small amount. it is composed of soy! I have been trying are justified. We should encourage our
Wow! What a difference in energy from to find some that is not but to no avail, farmers to raise soy-free poultry (and
these oats! I have severe CFS and I have so now I have to make it myself. be prepared to pay the additional price).
never eaten anything that comes close The main problem—which even And we should definitely avoid farmed
to giving that kind of noticeable energy. further shocked me—is that all the com- fish and shrimp.
They kept my blood sugar up (I’m very mercial fish feed used in all fish farms
hypoglycemic), and I wasn’t hungry for inland as well as the fish feed used out FORMULA FOR SUCCESS
hours. It was amazing. Of course I plan at sea is composed of a high percentage I just had to pass on the story of one
to continue to soak my oats for two days of soy, so all the left over feed that the very thankful member of our farm club
now with the whey in them. fish out in the ocean do not eat, becomes whose baby, Scarlett, was not thriving
I’m writing to you at WAPF to see food for other sea animals and crusta- on breast milk or conventional formula,
whether perhaps there is anything I ceans. So now we have the whole food so Ashley started making the raw milk
should be concerned about before doing chain being poisoned by this, and we as formula for her.
this regularly, might I be getting some the consumer are eating these seemingly “Scarlett is doing so great!” she
undesirable bugs and not realize it for a “healthy” foods! I even went as far as to reports. “She only gets up once a night
while? I realize that when you culture look at the pellets they feed our farmed and hardly spits up at all! I wish I would
veggies for sauerkraut, they go through animals such as chickens, cows and have had this formula for my son, Wy-
different stages, and the first stage would pork. They all contained a high percent- att, when he was a baby. I struggled
not have very desirable bugs it seems for age of soy, even the “organic” farmed with his eczema and him spitting up so
consumption. Not sure whether grains ones. I feel so sick to my stomach that badly that everywhere I went I had to
do this as well. My oatmeal did continue this is happening right in front of us, and bring three or four rags with me only to
to smell yeasty after cooking, but not off, all in the name of financial gain. return home with them all soaked. He
or unpleasant. What I would like to know is, when
Julie Incerti these animals and fish eat the soy, does Gifts and bequests to the
Bellingham, Washington it at all break down in them to be not Weston A. Price Foundation
harmful to us, or is the animal or fish we will help ensure the gift of good health
eat basically the same as buying “fake” to future generations.

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