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                 activists in other states could use it as a  made out of homemade meat stock. This  found  two  soy  articles  (“Myths  and
                 template or as an idea to generate their  propaganda just horrifies me.   Truths” and “Soy Infant Formula”) on
                 own.                                    Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD  the WAPF site translated into Spanish
                    Since first proposing this idea to                 Cambridge, U.K.  and printed them out for him.
                 my fellow WAPF chapter leaders on                                         When  I  gave  them  to  him,  he
                 our email group, I’ve learned that there  SOY REFLECTIONS             stopped his work at the stove immedi-
                 is already a well-organized movement     As a naturopath and medical intui-  ately to start reading. He thanked me
                 in Oregon to draft something similar in  tive, I’d like to share my observations of  so very much! He has a sense of what is
                 concept, called the “Agricultural Rec-  those who have eaten a lot of soy.     right to eat as he was very connected to
                 lamation Act.” See www.youtube.com/  First, men who continually drink their  agriculture in Mexico. When I first told
                 user/FamilyFarmFriends#p/a/u/1/Sqyk-  soy milk are unable to make their wives  him I thought the soy was not a good
                 NIr2zZY. Further, Florida has drafted  pregnant, as they have built up too much  idea and he asked why, all I needed to
                 the “Florida Food Freedom Act,” which  estrogen in their systems. And women  say was that this white liquid came from
                 would lift burdensome overregulation  who consume a lot of soy often lose their  a green-colored bean and was “very far
                 off the backs of Florida’s small farmers.  libido, especially if they are also on the  away from the farm.” He understood
                 See: www.ftcldf.org/aa/aa-26feb2010-4.  pill. The cause is too much estrogen.  instinctively what I was getting at, but
                 htm. Lastly, I’ve been told that a group in  Such women need to get off the soy and  the words in Spanish were the real trick.
                 Wyoming is working on similar legisla-  the pill and take some type of male herb     I just ordered the info booklet in
                 tion.                              to rebalance.                      Spanish for him and was hoping some
                    So, a few states are already moving     I have also found, through kinesiol-  of the trifolds would also be available in
                 in the direction of protecting small farm-  ogy, that those who have consumed a lot  Spanish—especially the cancer trifold,
                 er and consumer food freedoms. We’re  of soy often suffer from thyroid prob-  as his wife just had a breast cancer scare.
                 just getting started here in Maine on  lems, and they are short of iodine. But  Guess this is a long way of asking: how
                 our own version of this. Please consider  most interestingly, those who have eaten  can I find out everything on the WAPF
                 getting something similar organized in  soy  routinely  need  manganese—not  site that is in Spanish and what can we
                 your state!                        magnesium, calcium or zinc, but manga-  do to get more info translated? Here in
                                        Suze Fisher  nese. I do not know how to explain this  Tucson, there’s lots that could be done
                     Casco Bay Maine WAPF Chapter   as soy is actually high in manganese.   with more info in Spanish!
                                  Brunswick, Maine                 Geoffrey Morell, ND                        Lynn Wright
                                                                       Washington, DC                     Tucson, Arizona
                 BIG CORPORATE MACHINE                                                              & Fort Jones, California
                    Sometimes it is disheartening to  HAD TO INTERVENE
                 see that despite all our efforts, the big     A few days ago I heard that a Latino  All the translations on the WAPF website
                 corporate  machine  keeps  rolling  on  friend in the restaurant kitchen where I  are listed here: www.westonaprice.org/
                 across the world, leaving destruction in  work was now drinking soy milk. He is  Translations/. These have all been done
                 its wake. It is rolling across Russia now;  on a weight loss-diet and is doing some  by volunteers, and we would welcome
                 all the popular “gurus” on TV are teach-  good things, such as no white sugar or  more!
                 ing people to boil their meat for half an  flour, and no beer, and has lost thirty-
                 hour, throw away the stock (because “it  three pounds so far.         UNFORTUNATE CONTROL GROUP
                 is full of cholesterol!”), then add more     When I heard about the soy, and     You cannot know the punishment
                 water and boil the meat again. Soup has  also  that  he  is  drinking  soy  protein  inflicted upon a person’s body by soy
                 always been a Russian staple, always  shakes, I knew I had to intervene. I  until you experience the violent reaction

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