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mostly, what snowy said.
soy was henry ford's wonder food, the crop that would save all of us from everything.
like most other crops in the states, you can't think about it as a category "soy" but rather as a function of the industrial food system (monocrop, chemistry, processed) or another. in the first system, soy acquires many of the problems other crops have acquired as a function of the subordination of nutrition to profits, of flavor to profit if only money tasted better maybe we should just eat that. in the other systems, it's not bad for you at all. of course you can eat enormous amounts of it for protracted periods and maybe develop any number of side-effects, just as you can develop side effects from eating mcdonalds food-like stuff for a month or smoking joints the size of a table leg for a few.
the problems with gmo's from a production viewpoint and from a patent viewpoint are clear---the problems from an eating viewpoint are contentious---in the main there is very considerable evidence that gmos and processed foods more generally are not great for you to eat. to go further would require data, which i would think important but you never know---there's a ton of it available around gmo production and consumption.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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