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Some veggie burgers found to contain harmful substance, hexane, used to process soy.

Hexane in veggie burgers

BY Tracy Miller
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, April 14th 2010, 10:25 AM
Yasukawa for NewsMany brands of frozen soy
veggie burgers that are not 100 percent organic
may have been produced using a harmful
substance, according to a report.
Think you’re being healthy by choosing a veggie
burger instead of red meat? Think again.
In an effort to make their products as low-fat as
possible, many veggie burger manufacturers are
turning to a potentially harmful chemical, according
to an investigation by the non-profit Cornucopia
Institute.
Most non-organic veggie burgers contain hexane, a
neurotoxin that’s also a petroleum by-product of
gasoline refining. Hexane is listed as a hazardous
air pollutant with the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), according to the report, which called
hexane the “dirty little secret of the ‘natural’ soy
foods industry.”
To keep down the fat content of energy bars, veggie
burgers and other products, food manufacturers
submerge soybeans in a bath of hexane to separate
them into soy oil, protein and fiber.
Products labeled “organic” aren’t allowed to contain
any hexane – but foods that are less than 100%
organic, such as those labeled “made with organic
ingredients,” may contain the chemical.
Veggie burgers that are likely to contain hexaneextracted
soy ingredients, according to the
research, include popular brands such as Amy’s
Kitchen, Boca Burger (conventional), Garden Burger
and Morningstar Farms, along with others.
Boca Burger and Morningstar burgers labeled “made
with organic soy” are not produced using hexane.
The full list of veggie burger and nutrition bar
brands researched can be found on page 37-38 of
the report. Click here to read.

Learn about Asherah’s gourmet soy and gluten free 100% Organic Vegan Burgers made with Quinoa and vegetables.

Watch this video on A Hilarious Look at the Flu Shot

The major flu shot ingredients are dead influenza viruses. There may be any number of different flu viruses circulating at any one time, but pharmaceutical companies only choose three as annual flu shot ingredients. Even if you take an annual flu shot, you could still contract another flu virus and still come down with the flu. So, it is still important to protect your immune system and practice good health habits. Common flu vaccine side effects include body aches, low grade fever and soreness at the point of injection. There are some rare, but serious flu vaccine side effects that concern many people.

In addition to the major flu shot ingredients, pharmaceutical companies add preservatives. Until recently there were no preservative free flu shots. The addition of the preservative thimerosal to flu shot ingredients has caused illness and injury. Thimerosal is mercury based and is believed to have been the cause of flu vaccine side effects in many people. Of major concern is the increase of autism in recent years and many researchers and doctors believe that thimerosal, a known neurotoxin, used as flu shot ingredients and in other childhood vaccines is the cause.

Some researchers and doctors believe that flu shot ingredients, including thimerosal and aluminum, increases the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease. This, of course, is not one of the common flu vaccine side effects and since Alzheimer’s does not develop immediately after taking the shot, then the link can not be proven. A prominent physician and researcher showed that people who had five consecutive influenza vaccinations between the years 1970 and 1980 were ten times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s than were individuals who had none, one or two.

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