For many on this site soy is bad news. Yet ,Allegedly ( BBC 10 pm news) that is what each of us eat a year. We import huge amounts for animal food for chickens,pork and cattle.So it is in eggs,milk and cheese. The WWF today announced that swathes of Brazil are being burnt illegally to create soy bean farms.Our wildlife is vanishing to deliver cheap food for growing populations.
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Obviously, soy is bad news for everybody.
Seriously scary....Especially as most of soy bean is genetically modified and in the long term we don't know how that will effect us. Already we are discovering that Glysophate is harmful to insects, wildlife, farm animals and us and this is used so widely. I won't name the big company involved in both and in a lot of farmers suicides.
Not that good for thyroid sufferers either as goitregenic .
Yet another excellent reason, if one were needed, for not eating animal products. I learnt recently that the US feeds its livestock chicken litter - a rendered down mix of chicken manure, dead chickens, feathers and spilled feed. Puts soy into a much better light .........
Soy is not "natural" food to animals and birds either so you can imagine what it does to their insides too, like how it can effect us.
In the US just about all meat is fed on stuff that is not natural to them because making a profit rules and pasturing animals cannot be done on such a massive scale for their food industry. So they spend their sad lives in huge barns in a ridiculously controlled environment. I don't want animals to live like that.
I never buy meat or from the supermarket because I don't know if it's grass-fed or not or how it was slaughtered. I cannot believe how cheap chicken is in supermarkets and it is obvious how this is done, by cutting out their welfare.
I only eat grass-fed butter, cream etc. too.
I buy chicken, pork, beef and lamb from my local butcher as I know that they are grass fed and which farm they come from ( pastured in the forest and our local salt marshes. The pigs are stuffing themselves with acorns at the moment!) and that they are dispatched in an efficient and respectful manner at small abbatoirs rather than huge conveyor belt killing factories. Eggs come from a small local farm where the chooks have a massive orchard to scratch around in and be like chickens! 
I believe there's no way of intentionally killing an animal "with dignity" in order to satisfy human greed and preference; and no reduction in scale makes any abattoir a warm friendly place free of fear, pain, and gore. A recent investigation found an allegedly high-standard Canadian abattoir is routinely skinning cows whilst still alive. I just don't buy the bucolic picture painted.
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