Answers to commonly asked questions
Is soy a harmful food? There are articles that claim that soy causes breast cancer, thyroid cancer and other problems. What about the fact that 90% of the soy is genetically modified these days? Should we eat soy products?
Soy is a bean that is rich in protein. Compared to animal protein, soy is better because it contains no cholesterol, no fat, and does contain fibre.
One of the reasons that cancer has become an epidemic is because we are eating too much protein. Protein is a food for growth. If we take milk or meat or soy in large quantities when we are no longer growing, this will translate into obesity and other growths like cancers and tumours. Our problem today is not soy, but the protein addiction.
Genetically modified foods have been proved harmful in lab animals. Not just soy, but corn, and various other vegetables these days are genetically modified. It’s best to choose organic non-GM foods.
Eating meat or dairy is an indirect way of eating soy, especially GM soy. Large amounts of soy are fed to farm animals to make them grow fast. So whether you choose tofu and soy milk or dairy and meat, if you consume these in large quantities you are likely to suffer cancer, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. The only way to prevent these diseases is to eat what nature intended us to – a variety of vegan fresh whole foods.
A little soy will not cause harm.
Is ‘Pure Milk’ good for you? Please tell me whether PURE MILK is vegetarian, assuming that it was milked from cow without depriving the calves and also without inflicting any pain to cow and in a place of maximum hygiene?
What is PURE MILK and how many people are able to obtain it, if it exists? Even those who do have their own cows and are not exploiting them, drink milk and consume milk products whose origin is unknown when they eat or drink products that are purchased.
Like any mammal the cow or buffalo produces milk only for its young. Today cows and buffaloes are artificially inseminated at the earliest, and then again within 2 months of delivery. Thus they are milked while they are pregnant and by the time the flow lessens the next calf is born. The technique of artificial insemination can be compared with rape.
A cow that is made repeatedly pregnant is productive for about 4 – 5 pregnancies – up to 6 – 7 years of her life. After this she is often disposed of by slaughter (age 7). An unexploited cow can live to 27 years.
In most cases the calf is deprived of the first milk (the colostrum), which is sold as a delicacy. Female calves get the first and last sips of their mother’s milk only. Male calves are often left to die of starvation. (In the West they are sold for veal often on the very day they are born).
When a cow’s udder is manipulated by humans or machines the cow undergoes injuries, which lead to inflammation and sepsis. This is why commercial cow feed contains antibiotics. On the average a glass of milk contains 7 drops of pus.
In India milk is transported in non-refrigerated trucks through long distances. Earthworms or urea is added to the milk to prevent spoilage.
Do you still believe in pure milk that is suitable for human consumption?
If milk is not good, what about curds (yogurt)?
Although curds are more digestible than milk, they still have the same composition of high protein and fat and no fibre, they contain growth hormones, pus pesticides, antibiotics and they cause the same suffering to the cows to the same extent that milk does.
