The harmful effects of soy, particularly on boys and their masculinity, are well documented. I've noticed, despite this truth, that everything has soy.

I searched for dressings, mayonnaise, cereals, bread; all had soy. As a primary ingredient. In fact, the beef I purchased,  "organic" eggs I purchased, it turns out, were raised on a diet almost exclusively of soy.

Who is behind this? Why are we allowing this known harm on our sons, our nation's males?

Is it China?

Our enemies?

How could it be that we, the taxpayers, would subsidize this?

FWIW

I see someone who's 20-30 pounds overweight, it's pretty obvious that they're eating too much, almost certainly eating too much junk, and most likely rarely exercise -- regularly.

I see someone obese, particularly morbidly obese, and I realize they are in need of help and symptomatic of a much larger problem we have with our foodstuffs. No doctor or nutritionist or scientist am I, but it seems increasingly apparent to me that a number of people require the fullness and richness and compete proteins and essential amino acids and minerals and iron that can be found only in 'real' animal products.

By real, I do not mean force fed grain, but eating grass, grazing and eating on unspoiled, non-pesticide land.

And their body desperately needs those fats and proteins and the deliciousness.

But, because of costs and culture and what we've been (wrongly) taught, people consume more and more quantities of processed food, of foodstuffs that are chock full of toxins and nearly absent of all life-giving benefits. And these foodstuffs offer a quick relief -- but demand more and more and more consumption.

My adivce: if you are very overweight, figure out a way to spend all that money you now spend on food, all your food including all the junk and all the snacks, and buy grass-fed beef, whole milk and cream, raw milk cheese, real butter and have at it. Probably will take a few weeks for results to show, habits to stick and addictions start to ease but I do not believe there is any other way for you to escape the prison you are now trapped in.

Good luck!

PS: I try to buy only grassfed beef and grassfed bison. Here's a good recipe from Foodista:

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I'm serious. I'm not making this up. Does corporate America want all our children now and forevermore to be fat lazy and stupid? Some of these "food" products sem to me like something designed for the sole purpose of turning children into those fat adults in Wall-E.

Took this picture with my iPhone today in the parking lot outside the neighborhood's favorite low-cost Mexican restaurant.

The last (heated) 'discussion' my wife and I got into was over recycling. Not that I wouldn't recycle, but that I was placing the new recyling bin on the curb, wrongly. Apparently, she read the new trash-recycling booklet that our city was nice enough to send to everyone.

Over 50 pages long!

Now, look, no fucking way am I gonna read a 50 page booklet on the proper way to trash and recycle. Because, how should I say this: I'M A FUCKING ADULT HUMAN BEING.

What do these have in common? Well, they are but two of the myriad examples of why we must -- and why we will -- destroy government.  I'm not gonna tell you how to put out your recycling bin every fortnight (not weekly, according to my well-read wife). Nor am I gonna tell you to drink raw milk, although a quick Google search will likely point you to its numerous (reputed) benefits.

Rather, I will tell you what our government allows and lets children buy. How about, say, a Ritz cracker:

Ingredients: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, SALT, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SOY LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), NATURAL FLAVOR, CORNSTARCH.

The more I learn about the potential health benefits of beef and butter from purely grass-fed, non-pesticide, truly organic cows, the happier this makes me.

Because I love me some beef and butter.

The more we treat animals as products, I fear, the greater harm we do our spirit, our bodies and our relationship to God. And to the animals, themselves. I believe this even knowing that feeding 6 billion people requires a rather advanced infrastructure.

Luckily, I am able, for now, to affod the much higher prices of 100% grass-fed beef and I believe in supporting values-based businesses.

This year I am committing myself to destroying all my bad eating habits:

• not giving thanks before *every* meal
• eating garbage
• consuming too much
• consuming animals as if they are product

I will post updates on my progress for these as it will help keep me on track -- and I hope inspire others towards better health, a stronger spirit and a more vital planet.

The more I read about soy the more I grow concerned about its potential harmful effects on my body and in my children.

So, I did what any parent would do: buy no more soy!

Thing is, you can't. It's like trying to not buy anything made in China.

That soy is everywhere, in everything.

Why?

I'm not the only one concerned about this product.  Just like I'm not the only one concerned about how getting all our products from China might not be in our best interest.

Is there someone out there (Margaret?), that is trying to take over the world -- or America -- by making it virtually impossible for moms and dads and boys and girls not to consume soy and not to buy stuff made in China?

Oh, sure. I'm just being silly.

But I dare you to try it. For just two weeks. A fortnight. No soy, nothing from China.

I am no vegetarian. I don't even want to be. Not like some people who think maybe it would be best if they became vegan or vegetarian, I just love meat. Especially pork and beef and chicken, along with fish (raw), lamb, especially in a curry, goat, simmered a long time in curry. If it's a chef specialty, I'll ocassionally have the duck.

But I want to be healthy.

And I want to have a healthier world.

Plus, I've come to believe that we are, on a planetary level, losing our respect for animals, turning them more and more into a product to be consumed, and in turn, damaging our souls.

Today, for instance, I read about the 27+ ingredients in a chicken mcnugget, which resembles nothing like a chicken. Soon after, I read about a 'promising' new method of agriculture that increases the amount of fish we can raise, harvest and thus consume. The method is called "aquaponics."

And throughout, it appears we've lost our understanding of nature and animals and life -- thus, our spirits, our right to have dominion over the creatures of the Earth.

I do not even try to convince myself that the world will give up meat. I probably won't. And, as your guide through this age of the Great Leveling, I can tell you that while America's shart of the overall pie may diminish, hundreds of millions at least will be lifted out of desperate poverty and hundreds of millions more, at least, will enter the middle class over the next few years.

The more that do, the more will consume animal products. Meaning, fish farms and industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops are unlikely to go away. For now, that is not my battle. For now, my battle is to restore my health and replenish my spirit. I can afford to purchase meat that is raised ethically, organically, sustainably. Maybe you can, too. I can and will give up eating 'meat' products that have essentially been whitewashed fully of their connection to the originating animal.

I will, before every meal I eat, give thanks and praise to God and remind myself of what I am eating, how it came to my plate and honoring its lift.

Remember one of my primary rules for business success in this new age: values = profits. Your values matter. I can get anything anywhere anytime from anyone. Why should I buy from you?

Because you're cheaper? Get serious.

Anyway, today I had my first ever Yogi bar from Everything Raw, a food company that makes nutrition bars that are 100% organic, fair trade and raw! It was delicious! Only, as Woody Allen said, "such small portions."

My recommendation, fwiw.