My friend Ginny Messina’s too ladylike to use a word like “bullshit” in her blog. But let me tell you, she uses some sort of industrial strength device to cut through a tractor trailer’s worth of bullshit in her latest blog entry. She addresses all the annoying and counterproductive restrictions — regarding gluten, fat, cooking, and soy — that commonly get bundled into a discussion of vegan eating.
I love her first paragraph:
When I order a vegan meal on a plane, it invariably comes with fat-free salad dressing. This annoys me more than I can say. It’s not just because I think fat-free salad dressing is basically inedible (which it is IMHO), but because somehow, vegan diets have become synonymous with low-fat eating. That’s not good for vegans or for the animals we want to help.
And here’s what she has to say about the widely-demonized soybean:
The issue of soyfoods—a staple in some Asian countries for at least 1,000 years—is a complex one and I’ve written about it elsewhere (like here, here, and here) It’s unfortunate that so many animal advocates have turned against soy when it is a food that makes it easier to be vegan. At the risk of sounding brag-y, my husband is kind of one of the world’s leading experts on soy and health, so I have access to a knowledgeable perspective on this topic. I eat two servings of soyfoods every day—sometimes a little more—mostly in the form of tofu and meat analogs. And based on the scientific literature, I feel comfortable doing so.
As long as there are asshats out there like Nina Planck and the Weston A. Price Foundation confusing people, articles like Ginny’s will sadly be necessary. Link.
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