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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Are the vegans listening?

I know that natural foods are not organic, but apparently organic foods are the only ones that likely do not use hexane.

Hexane is a highly flammable EPA-listed air pollutant that is used in the manufacture of cleaning agents, glues, roof sealer, automobile tires, energy bars, veggie burgers, and soy, corn, and canola oils. If these food products are not certified organic, some of the ingredients have probably been processed with hexane, no matter how many times the word "natural" is stamped on the package. Since hexane is used in the manufacturing process, it's not listed as an ingredient in the foods it helps produce, though residues find their way into the finished product.

Essentially, soy and other "natural" foods are processed with (contain) a neurotoxin, which is used because of "its availability at a reasonable cost" due to the fact that "it's a byproduct of gasoline production." Ewww. Note that soy lecithin in almost all processed foods, so it's not just an ewww for the health nuts shopping at Trader Joe's--we're all ewww'd.

While we're at it, I saw this interesting (unverified) diagram of why no one is really a vegan, based on all the products made from a cow's parts. Kind of reminds me of something I saw but didn't keep about why replacing gas in cars was not going to keep us from needing oil production and refining.

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