Word: soybeanization
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Beanie Babies Soy textiles are made from the dregs left over from producing soybean oil and tofu. From those humble beginnings come high-end silky tops, dresses and especially soft baby clothes and blankets...
...class projects. When eleventh graders study early-American economic systems, the village becomes their classroom for nine weeks. Exhibit curators often lead class discussions at the sawmills, weaving stations and tin-making shops inside the craftworks district, and on the lawns of Thomas Edison's laboratory, the working soybean farm and antebellum tobacco plantation that dot the property...
Four months after being sued for frying its chicken in oil laden with lethal trans fats, KFC said it plans to switch to a healthier soybean oil by April. Those craving trans fats can still eat KFC's biscuits...
...increase in pesticide use since 1945 has not yielded a commensurate increase in food production. Rather, chemical advances have lowered present costs for farmers and saddled society with a burdensome environmental debt. Much of U.S. agriculture could be done organically at the same levels of output. Organic corn and soybean yields per acre in Iowa, according to Duffy, are even greater than conventional ones...
...full of fiber, or full of, well, other stuff. And breakfast bars, a newer product aimed at fast eaters running off to school or work, can be just as unhealthy as the worst of cereals. Some have yogurt coatings which are actually composed of dextrose and partially hydrogenated soybean oils. Others are just sweetened cereals repackaged into a candy-bar like wrapper. One product that the Center for Science in the Public Interest says to avoid is Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Blueberry Yogurt Bars, which are high in sodium, low in fiber, and not much better for you than...