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[rootofnewt]

With FALCPA in place and supermarket stock slowly turning over to new, I'm discovering why I keep having mystery hives and eczema. It's not idiopathic, after all, which I suppose should be a relief. Soy is hiding in EVERYTHING where it seemed it shouldn't. I mean HIDING. This explains why my reactions to more than trace amounts have gotten so horrid--I'm getting minute trace reactions constantly. *sigh*

Maybe I'll feel better when I start eating nothing but rocks and dirt.

Comments

[ebonypearl.livejournal.com]

Soy is the darling of food manufacturers because it's currently cheap and blends into everything. Did you know they are cutting ground beef with soy? I have a daughter who is highly allergic to soy, and we were among the people who were behind the new law that will have food manufacturers and producers include soy on the allergy list, along with wheat, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and dairy.

It won't make more foods available, but it will allow us to avoid the worst offenders. And we've had to convert to buying as much as possible fresh from local sources. Buffalo and venison instead of beef because cattle are fed soy and it gets into the meat. Pig from small farms who don't feed their piggies soy. Ditto for chickens and turkey. I learned to hunt so I could feed my child. And garden. And contact gardeners who don't mulch with soy by-products to buy their produce. And buying wheat and grinding it ourselves to avoid the soy fillers.

Most people don't take soy allergies seriously because the food pr industry has touted soy as the new panacea. It's even in prescription drugs as filler, if it's not listed as one of the active ingredients. It's especially ubiquitous in medications for women - PMS remedies, menopause remedies, and birth control. I second amberlea85's evil, evil soy comment.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm aware of all the places it shows up, but there are some new offenders. In fact, some of them are places I already called and ASKED and was told the product was soy-free. Grrrrrr.

I submitted comments on the FDA FALCPA docket, too.

I've had an anaphylactic soy allergy since 1999. It's the tiny amounts that don't trigger anaphylaxis--but do trigger reactions--which make my life miserable.