UPDATE: Veggie burger rumors are flying! Some readers and other news organizations have alleged that the study I wrote [1] about on Monday was funded by the pro-meat, anti-soy group the Weston A. Price Foundation [2]. But this morning, I spoke with Cornucopia Institute [3] director Mark Kastel, who said that the Weston A. Price Foundation did not contribute any funding to the "Behind the Bean" (pdf [4]) study. More here [5].
On Monday, I wrote [6] about a recent study by the Cornucopia Institute [3] that found that many popular veggie burgers are made with hexane, an EPA-registered air pollutant and a neurotoxin. Commenters had lots of interesting discussions and good questions, many of which require far more knowledge of the subject than I have to answer. So I called up Charlotte Vallaeys, the lead researcher on the Cornucopia Institute's soy study "Behind the Bean," (pdf [4]) to talk about some of the issues readers have raised.
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/04/veggie-burgers-neurotoxin-hexane
3 comments:
Another problem with veggie burgers: no beef.
Also, did you write this yourself Vagrunt, or do we have to get the APA all up this in this and formalize the "giving credit where due"?
ps-the eastcoast kicked texas' ass in qrank today.
the URL link takes you to the Mother Jones article... which lists the writer. There was an original article, then one that listed which burger were which (hint, buy organic).
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