According to Rockview inmate Troy Davis, FR-1595, prison diets are soy-based. The ACLU advised him to write to prisoners.com about it. You know what they say about "you are what you eat" and interestingly enough, "soy" is also Spanish for "I am." So, soy-soy would be a way of saying that your body is nourished by this rather controversial food. The New World Dictionary describes the stuff as: "rice, wheat, or beans fermented & steeped in brine," (pickled grains, sort of) -- a definition which does not seem so very far away from the ingredients in beer. For health concerns of prisoners who are continually being subjected to the stuff: Troy Davis provides the following research information:
"Tests have shown soy to be toxic after so much intake per day. I see this issue as a valid and vital threat to prisoner health. I also have information on soy's dangers from the Weston A. Price Foundation, in the form of a newspaper open letter to Barack Obama published November 22, 2008, in Lancaster Farming. Berkley's Ecology Center - agrees, soy is dangerous if consumed in large quantities."
Davis goes on to say that his complaints and concerns to prison authorities on this subject have fallen on deaf ears - now, there's a surprise! Disinterested and disattached prison officials. who would have thought it?
www.prisoners.com thanks Mr. Davis for providing this insight into a perhaps insidious system for degrading prisoner health, one that may rarely be considered.
