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The anti-soy stuff is 100% a psyop by the meat industry. (hexbear.net)

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Complaining about tofu being bland is the equivalent of saying that a blank canvas is boring.

Saying you hate tofu is such a self own. It is one of and maybe the most versatile food of all time. It is cheap. It's macros are at parity with chicken breast. It keeps well AND is much safer (food safety and healthwise) than meat.

I can confirm as someone going from eating meat with every meal to vegan, basic ass fried tofu tastes better than most restaurant meat these days.

What is even wilder is that the US grows a lot of soybeans, and the ideal target for MAGA would probably be a soybean farmer.

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[–] GreenWizard@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago

As someone who has eaten tofu for decades, it is like oatmeal (in my opinion). It is bland until you learn to spice it properly. But even getting someone to cook their own cheeseburger is impossible if they are addicted to the convenience and stability of corporate food.

But I agree with your wider point. It was obvious to me that the whole "soy causes feminization via phytoestrogen" is just pesudo-scientific disinformation, but it was effective working class targeted propaganda in the USA. Undoubtedly it is the massive dairy lobby behind it all. The oil industry did the same with global warming. And every capitalist joins their bandwagon because they are all united against environmentalism of any kind, even to save their own future family members.

I also find it weird that soy farmers are the salt of the earth types who make up Trump's base (I live in the Midwest in soybean country), and it would make sense to advance their interests. But the system isn't logical, it is a quilt made of many swaths of corruption, some competing against each other (dairy vs soy).