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The transition beyond dairy usually leads most "dairy-free"ers towards a soy-based cuisine. Soy products are big business and touted as miracle health foods. Studies of Asian cultures, particularly in Japan, have emphasized that soy is their key to good health. However, it is revealing to note that soy used in Japan is traditionally used in small amounts as a condiment and it is usually in a fermented form.

Soy is naturally a low-mineral food offering little as a staple replacement for meat of diary
Soy contains potentially harmful phytates which chelate certain minerals before they can even be absorbed by the body
Monsanto's Roundup Ready Soybeans contain 29 percent less of the brain nutrient choline, and 27 percent more trypsin inhibitor, the potential allergen that interferes with protein digestion, than normal soybeans. And levels of lectins, which are most likely the culprit in soy allergies are nearly double in the transgenic variety.
Soy is one of the Top 7 Allergens in the World - it IS a genetically modified food, unless you are getting yours from an heirloom variety and even then its growing conditions are uncontrolled and commonly questionable.

Here is a briefing on yet another side of soy:

In 2003, a study was done comparing the bodily IGF-1 increase promoted by 40 grams of soy (the amount in one soy candy bar and a soy shake, or 4 soy patties) vs. 40 grams of milk protein. Soy was found to be almost twice as powerful as milk protein in increasing IGF-1 levels (36% for milk, 69% for soy).
The amount of phyto-estrogens in a single day's worth of soy-based baby formula is equal to FIVE BIRTH CONTROL PILLS!!!
75% of the United States' total vegetable fat and oil intake is from soy. All soy milk and almost all soy based products including soy 'vegetable' oil are heated and create trans fats.
The number of processsed and manufactured foods that contain soy ingredients today is astounding. It is actually hard to find packaged foods that do not contain soy in one form or another. This is an experiment that has never been done before in human history.