While Dr. Price, a dentist who studied the diets of many cultures, was, I’m sure, sincere in his desire to discover the optimum diet, the Weston A. Price Foundation seems to be dedicated to the false proposition that animal products are necessary for good health. Hardly. As for soy, like all foods, too much of a good thing can hurt you. Too much water can hurt you, for that matter. But I suspect that this whole ‘soy is bad’ movement that has sprung up is a subversive way for the meat lobby to try to get people to spend their money on their toxic products rather than soy foods.

Thank you for your comment ardeth, I always appreciate controversy on this blog, and there isn’t many more controversial topics than the subjects of soy and meat eating.

In response, I can only say that the “false proposition” you mention regarding animal products being necessary is difficult to understand. If you read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration the facts are plain and obvious for all to see. Weston Price found NO societies that existed on a diet lacking in animal products. The cultures he studied would always “eat meat or animal products to the amount available judging by their geographic location.”

In fact, not many people know this, but Dr. Price actually went on his travels looking to find the optimal diet and he believed that it was going to be a vegetarian diet. Since this is not what he found, it would have been quite easy for him to swallow his pride and sweep his information under the rug, but he decided to publish the information found in the book going totally against what he first thought and hoped he would find.

Besides this, you are right that there is definitely a financial reasoning behind many of the foods that are available and that the media / government makes more accessible than others. In my opinion soy is one of those foods that the governments of Western nations has decided to sell, sell, sell for their own gain.

In no way are the Weston A Price Foundation going to benefit from recommending animal products to others, since they are a non-profit organisation.

To conclude, the real judge of all of this is health! If you look, feel and act in a healthy manner, there’s good reason to believe that what you are doing is correct. Thanks again for your comment – keep them coming!