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<blockquote data-quote="Combat Advantage" data-source="post: 177289" data-attributes="member: 33095"><p>Great question Gizalba.</p><p></p><p>First, your set up is impressive!</p><p>The crickets have a three course meal, a clean table, and good hide areas. </p><p></p><p>To answer your question about soy.</p><p></p><p>It's been a large agricultural crop for many decades. This is not due to the nutritional value of soy. It's due mainly to the profits for big agriculture and chemical companies like Monsanto. They are the first, if I remember correctly, to make commercial use of the Gene Gun. They genetically modify high value crops like soy which I will try to find a documentary or link to an interview with an expert on the subject that you can watch. This thread would turn into a book otherwise. Here's one:</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]7sUNxX0OxP8[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>Glyphosate chemical that is commercially called Round Up. </p><p>It is used on All 99.9% of soy crops.</p><p>It kills weeds, and people, but not GMO soybeans. A book or three could be written on this. I will just give bullet points and if you want further information, feel free to ask and I will explain or post links.</p><p>*Nickname in agricultural academia.....Liquid Cancer. I first heard this term at one of the top US colleges of agriculture. That's how carcinogenic the professors considered it.</p><p></p><p>*I have first hand experience with a beloved pet my Mom had. It was the family dog. I noticed that she bought a bottle of it. I warned the family to take it back to the store or dispose of it properly. Next thing I know is that it was applied to the fence line and the dog immediately developed a major stomach tumor and was killed. Some may say that this was an acceptable loss because more people died from religion than this issue. They can assume that for themselves. I would not ever use it on people or pet food, or knowingly consume it. There's no truley known safe amount. The poison is used with absolutely no limits on many crops as well as just to dry them at harvest. </p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]ITbGpAl--7Q[/MEDIA]</p><p>*Soy used to be promoted by vegetarians from the 1970s to 2,000s as a healthy meat alternative. I understand why that information would still be promoted to us. Big agra marketing propaganda. It's promoted by schools and the FDA that its nutritious and delicious. There is a new term for estrogen dominance in men and adolescents... "Soy boys.". Plants produce estrogens....a female dominant hormone. This doesn't mean that its healthy for women though. For them it has caused cancers, miscarriages, early onset of puberty. Babies formulas containing soy is essentially giving them birth control pills.</p><p>Men and boys should not consume soy for reasons that it throws off testosterone hormones radically and eventually leads to a host of health problems. Plastics also leach estrogen mimickers. This is why I have eliminated plastics from my food storage.</p><p>It has been shown that mature men who eat right and avoid plastics, stay fit, have higher levels of T than average American men in their 20s.</p><p>I doubt if there are studies of the effects of soy meal on tarantula feed. However, I see no reason why they would not suffer health challenges from it as well.</p><p></p><p>Stay Healthy and Happy Gizalba!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Combat Advantage, post: 177289, member: 33095"] Great question Gizalba. First, your set up is impressive! The crickets have a three course meal, a clean table, and good hide areas. To answer your question about soy. It's been a large agricultural crop for many decades. This is not due to the nutritional value of soy. It's due mainly to the profits for big agriculture and chemical companies like Monsanto. They are the first, if I remember correctly, to make commercial use of the Gene Gun. They genetically modify high value crops like soy which I will try to find a documentary or link to an interview with an expert on the subject that you can watch. This thread would turn into a book otherwise. Here's one: [MEDIA=youtube]7sUNxX0OxP8[/MEDIA] Glyphosate chemical that is commercially called Round Up. It is used on All 99.9% of soy crops. It kills weeds, and people, but not GMO soybeans. A book or three could be written on this. I will just give bullet points and if you want further information, feel free to ask and I will explain or post links. *Nickname in agricultural academia.....Liquid Cancer. I first heard this term at one of the top US colleges of agriculture. That's how carcinogenic the professors considered it. *I have first hand experience with a beloved pet my Mom had. It was the family dog. I noticed that she bought a bottle of it. I warned the family to take it back to the store or dispose of it properly. Next thing I know is that it was applied to the fence line and the dog immediately developed a major stomach tumor and was killed. Some may say that this was an acceptable loss because more people died from religion than this issue. They can assume that for themselves. I would not ever use it on people or pet food, or knowingly consume it. There's no truley known safe amount. The poison is used with absolutely no limits on many crops as well as just to dry them at harvest. [MEDIA=youtube]ITbGpAl--7Q[/MEDIA] *Soy used to be promoted by vegetarians from the 1970s to 2,000s as a healthy meat alternative. I understand why that information would still be promoted to us. Big agra marketing propaganda. It's promoted by schools and the FDA that its nutritious and delicious. There is a new term for estrogen dominance in men and adolescents... "Soy boys.". Plants produce estrogens....a female dominant hormone. This doesn't mean that its healthy for women though. For them it has caused cancers, miscarriages, early onset of puberty. Babies formulas containing soy is essentially giving them birth control pills. Men and boys should not consume soy for reasons that it throws off testosterone hormones radically and eventually leads to a host of health problems. Plastics also leach estrogen mimickers. This is why I have eliminated plastics from my food storage. It has been shown that mature men who eat right and avoid plastics, stay fit, have higher levels of T than average American men in their 20s. I doubt if there are studies of the effects of soy meal on tarantula feed. However, I see no reason why they would not suffer health challenges from it as well. Stay Healthy and Happy Gizalba! [/QUOTE]
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