Comments on: Sickened by Soy, Illinois Prisoners Sue State

By: tina

tina — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:55:03 +0000

Irate WAP farmer – Thank you for working as hard as you do. I am so very grateful that there are people like you that are willing to do the work so that I and others can eat real food.

I do think that most inmates would appreciate the opportunity to grow their own food and raise their own animals. They’d learn skills that can be used once they leave prison. These inmates have no choice (unless they have the extra monies to buy other food which most don’t have) but to eat soy. Soy is poison to some inmates. No prisoner should be made to eat something that will make him so very sick. Many of these inmates will leave prison unhealthy and we taxpayers will end up paying more because we will be footing the hospital bills.

By: cheeseslave

cheeseslave — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:18:26 +0000

Jen – You are correct. Sally is proposing that they go back to the way they used to do things. In many states, the inmates do still grow/raise their own food.

It was only after Rod Blagojevich was elected governor that they introduced the soy diet to the inmates. Archer Daniels Midland has been supplying the soy — they also contributed to Blagojevich’s campaign.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:13:13 +0000

Hardworking irate WAP farmer: If you watch the videos, you will see that milking their own cows, growing their own food, etc. is EXACTLY what Sally Fallon is recommending the prisoners do. That’s the way it was done before Big Ag got involved. The problem with that excellent system is that there is no room for greed and corruption by high prison officials… no corners to cut or influx of money to skim from in order to fill their own pockets.

By: cheeseslave

cheeseslave — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:58:20 +0000

Sure thing Lisa. I will update the post to include ALL 10 videos as soon as I get a chance to get them all uploaded (hopefully by end of today).

By: Hardworking irate WAP farmer

Hardworking irate WAP farmer — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:43:46 +0000

This is ridiculous! While I don’t condone making inmates ill, I believe they should be forced to be a self-sustaining community. You want a glass of milk, go milk a cow, you want a sandwich, grow the grain, mill the flour and bake the bread. They would have no time for the anti-social behaviors so common in prisons if they fell into bed every night as I do trying to feed my family and community. This is just another bandaide on a festering wound.