There are so many people in my life that when I tell them I'm vegan they freak out and ask if I'm eating soy. "Oh, that shit will give you cancer." "Don't eat too much soy it will mess with your estrogen and give you ovary cancer" and so on.

I always thought that soy had been proven safe? Like it's plant estrogen, our bodies don't absorb it, right?

What do I say to these kinds of people? I like tofu :vegan-tofu:

Edit: Thanks for the info folks, you rule. :bean:

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I bought into the whole "phytoestrogens bad" thing for years before I became a vegan. It was the very last hurdle I had to overcome. I actually think you can find some old comments I made on this site asking about.

    Long story short, phytoestrogens don't create a response in your body similar to what estrogen does, which is the entire argument the anti-soy folks rely on. Not to mention when you research who it is making these claims about soy, they are always chuds.

    The Game Changers - while it certainly has some flaws - is pretty good about this and was one of the two documentaries along with Dominion that convinced me to go vegan.