Veggie Burgers and the 'Dirty Little Secret of the Natural Soy Foods Industry'

liverock · � #1 � 05-16-2010, 05:32 AM

https://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle...rocess_so.html

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Think you're being healthy by choosing a veggie burger instead of red meat? Think again.
In an effort to make their products as low-fat as possible, many veggie burger manufacturers are turning to a potentially harmful chemical, according to an investigation by the non-profit Cornucopia Institute.
Most non-organic veggie burgers contain hexane, a neurotoxin that's also a petroleum by-product of gasoline refining. Hexane is listed as a hazardous air pollutant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to the report, which called hexane the "dirty little secret of the 'natural' soy foods industry.......