Furor grows after Silk soy milk labels are quietly changed from 'organic' to 'natural'

you know it's becoming very clear that we now live in a country which practices decit at every turn,we can't trust are medication's,our food,our goverment,we need a big change a change that goes back to our forefathers we need our country back we need a boston tea party..

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My Brother owns a grocery store not far from Baltimore and he says he sells mostly milk substitutes since most Afro Americans are lactose intolerant. He said that SILK is one of them but it is more expensive.

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Soy milk isn't very healthy anyway.
However, to keep real foods on the market we should buy organic and support stores that sell USDA certified organic foods and support organic farmers. It's healthier for us all and saves our environment. I know first hand... Eating organic changed my life. I could barely do anything because of a liver disease and now I feel normal. I eat 90% organic. Let's not let only conventional supermarkets be the norm. Our health & the health of our families depends on it us turning back to real foods.

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The term Natural is quite deceiving. You think is all natural but there are no FDA regulations to use the term. Conversely, the term Organic can only be used if it's certified organic. Look for the green and white circle that says so. Organic food has to meet a certain criteria by the FDA in order to get the Certified Organic Label.

DDJ - Glad to read you're doing better by eating "clean".

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Mike, they have unsweetened versions - only 1g sugar per serving.

Frankly I wonder why this is coming to light now... I've known about this for months. Also, if you can find it, Organic Valley has some good soy milk.

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And yet another formerly reputable company succumbs to using underhanded business practices, just like Horizon! Yet another product to cross off my shopping list! Jerks.

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There is no such thing as soy milk, it's either soy beans with some biproduct or something else. Now whats in the damn carton?

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Have YOU ever tried to milk a soybean?

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I wonder if the dean spokesperson was available to comment in 20min,since she was not immediately available. WHY DO WRITERS CONTINUE TO WRITE THAT. by saying she wasnt available immediately it makes one think that they got a hold of her but in like 20-30 min or an hour STUPID,when were they available

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Well all you greenie and blueies and whatever you wish to be known as today.
This is the new world order, brought to you by the liberal bias
leaders like Gore and Obama.
It has nothing to do with what is, the important part is what your perception is, of what is.
Your other hero, Clinton brought this new thought aspect to life, really giving it new meaning.

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I will refer to Penn and Teller Bullsh!t Show on organics. Most of these products are not from local farmers as they would have you believe. But instead from large companies. So before you get on your high horse about "supporting your local farmer" be aware that your little carrot may not have been plucked from the earth by Jim-Bob 5 miles down the road. It's also been stated that to meet the demands of the world's food supply "organic" foods aren't totally viable. Meaning that enough organic crops cannot be raised to meet the demand, and thus people would starve. (Even more so than do now) I wonder also if people take into consideration that humans have been tinkering with their food for millennia. Most of the vegetables we eat today, such as broccoli, never existed on their own, and are the product of our ancestors selectively modifying the plant through generations to make a more palatable product. So, "mmmmm goat gene spliced tomatoes anyone?"

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I use to work for a company that puts together food catalogs that grocery stores and "organic" grocery stores use to order both "organic" and non-organic food and drink merchandise. Let me tell you, the wholesale prices of these food items are all right about the same price, organic or not. It's the stores that are marking up the prices like crazy and making "organic" items super expensive. The average consumers are the one being fooled here, I tell you. We are being suckered into paying higher prices for no reason other than bump up the profits for these stores.

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Regarding vegetarianism vs. veganism, man is the only species that drinks the milk of another species. All other species drink the milk of the mothers of their own species until they are weaned. Cow's milk is the perfect food—if you're a baby calf!


To mass produce cow's milk on a large scale via factory farming, cows have to be kept continually pregnant, giving birth, and lactating. The cows are genetically bred to produce excess cow's milk for humans. Male cows (bulls) are useless to the dairy industry, so they become veal. By supporting the dairy industry, one indirectly supports cow killing.


Vegetarians do cause far less animal cruelty than meat-eaters, but a nonviolent philosophy would carry greater weight from vegans than from vegetarians.


The meat-eaters, especially, exactly, are ready to find fault with us in this regard: do we love all animals, or only some animals (e.g., cows) and not others? And if we really do love the cows, why do we contribute to their death and suffering just to drink their milk?


Can children be raised without cow's milk? YES! Half the world's population (blacks and Asians in particular) are lactose intolerant, and can't digest milk after infancy. Dr. Michael Klaper has written books on vegan nutrition, pregnancy, and childbirth.


One of the first books I read on the subject of vegetarianism while in college was A Vegetarian Sourcebook by Keith Akers (1983). Describing the environmental damage caused by raising animals for food: topsoil erosion, deforestization, loss of groundwater, etc. as well as the economic inefficiency and waste of energy and resources in raising animals for food in an age of exploding human population growth, Keith Akers foreshadowed John Robbins' Diet for a New America (1987), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.


In A Vegetarian Sourcebook, Keith Akers writes:


"Using grasslands for livestock agriculture creates great environmental problems, which greatly limit its usefulness. Grazing systems require ten times more land than feedlot agriculture, in which animals are simply given feed grown on cropland. Grazing systems have to be extensive in order to avoid the catastrophic consequences of overgrazing—which renders a piece of land unsuitable for any purpose.


"Overgrazing and the consequent soil erosion are extremely serious problems worldwide. By the most conservative estimates, 60% of all U.S. rangelands are overgrazed, with billions of tons of soil lost each year. Overgrazing has also been the greatest cause of man-made deserts.


"Even if we grant grazing a role in a resource-efficient, ecologically stable agriculture, milk should be the end result, not beef. Milk provides over 50% of the protein and nearly four times the calories of beef, per unit of forage resources from grazing.


"'When only forage is available, then egg, broiler and pork production are eliminated and only milk, beef, and lamb production are viable systems,' state David and Marcia Pimentel, scientists and authors of Food, Energy and Society. "Of these three, milk production is the most efficient.'


"An ecologically stable, resource-efficient system of grazing animals for human food could not be anything faintly resembling today's livestock agriculture," concludes Akers. "It would be a smaller, decentralized, less intensive system of animal husbandry devoted to milk production."



This is what the Vedas say as well: an acre of land, a cow and a bull, and you're all set! The Vedas also warn that when a population is sinful, their land becomes a desert...and overgrazing does lead to topsoil erosion, which in turn leads to desertification. So it may be possible to have animal agriculture (devoted solely to milk production) on a small scale—like the Amish. But the rest of humanity, with an exploding population in the billions, will have to be vegan.

According to the editors of World Watch, July/August 2004: "The human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future--deforestization, topsoil erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities and the spread of disease."

Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, similarly says: "...the survival of our planet depends on our sense of belonging--to all other humans, to dolphins caught in dragnets to pigs and chickens and calves raised in animal concentration camps, to redwoods and rainforests, to kelp beds in our oceans, and to the ozone layer."

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It wasn't organic and was probably made from genetically altered soybeans which are about the only ones available now to soy farmers thanks to Monsanto. Watch the movie, Food, Inc. to get the truth about what we eat. Disgusting and if you think our wonderful government is protecting us...forget it.

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I'M CONFUSED .0(
WE LOVE SOY MILK
WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO LOOK FOR ON THE LABEL ?
>> DID I MENTION THAT, > I'M CONFUSED ?

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;0( SERIOUSLY FOLKS.... I AM CONFUSED !

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Hi, this is Jarod from Silk. It's good to see you guys feel so strongly about our products, I'm sorry for any confusion created by recent news stories.

Just to be clear, we sell both natural and organic Silk products – you can visit our web site to find out where to purchase locally: http://www.silksoymilk.com/content/product-locator.

And, we created new, green packaging for our organic products to help them stand out better on the shelves.

I also want to make sure you guys know that all of Silk’s organic products follow the strict guidelines outlined in the National Organic Program. And, all of our soybeans – both natural and organic – are non-genetically modified.

Hopefully this information helps answer some of your questions.

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