All my life I grew up having soy in my everyday diet because of my parents. According to my parents, soybeans are a very important nutrient to our everyday diets. Due to their past living conditions, they grew up relying on soybeans as their only source of nutrient and a way of sustaining a reasonable diet. I didn’t believe soy was as valuable as my parents sought it out to be until I read chapter seven.
The chapter begins with the story of chocolate and the process of how it goes from a bean to the wrapper. What caught my attention was that the process included lecithin, which comes from soybeans (166). The chapter goes on to explain that it is not just chocolate that includes soybeans but many other foods that I have come to enjoy throughout the years. As a matter of fact, soybeans were more than an additive, but rather a base ingredient in a couple foods and economies (166, 168-169). I personally don’t enjoy reading this book but the themes that were highlighted in this chapter were complete eye-openers to the world of soybeans. The idea that wars and revolutions can be started from the benefits of a small bean is an example of its importance. I mean, c’mon! Even Ford himself dedicated the equivalent of a couple million dollars to make a coat made from the stuff. I will never look at soybeans the same way again.
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