Soybean vs soybean oil

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Madan-mohan wrote:

 

> >According to Ayurveda ghee is the supreme cooking medium.

>

> You may note that I did not maintain that ghee was bad or unhealthy. I

> just said that some vegetable oils tended to be more healthy than ghee in

> regular diet in the long run.

 

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There is no oil, not even in the long run, which is a more healthy cooking

media than ghee. How do I know that? Because Ayurveda says so. The karmi

scientist may have their version, but I think as devotees it behooves us to

uphold the Vedic version. Besides, as I said before, modern science is

largely clueless about what is fit for human consumption. The same science

will tell you that you need meat for a balanced diet and that butter and

milk is bad for you, when in fact the exact opposite is true.

 

Soybeans and hence also the oil are absolutely useless and even harmful for

human consumption, especially if taken on a regular basis. Soy is totally in

the mode of ignorance. This is especially true of modern soy products that

are without almost no exception all made from gene-manipulated soy beans.

 

Make a search on the net and read all the horror stories from people who

went vegan and thought soy was the healthy alternative. Now, I am not a

fanatic, or even a health freak, I enjoy Chinese noodles with tofu very

much, but that's in my own home. On a public forum for devotees, we have to

uphold the Vedic version.

 

Finally I would just like to say to Yadu-srestha, that I find his

suggestion, or understanding rather, that oil be used in stead of ghee at

our restaurants a bad choice, very bad for preaching in fact, as it deprives

people of the ultimate, superior taste sensation of prasadam cooked in ghee,

which is after all one of the things that initially attracted all of us so

much to Krishna Consciousness.

 

I still remember my first visit to the temple, when the taste buds exploded

in a delight out of this world, as the prasadam cooked in ghee entered into

my mouth. It can never be an economical issue, because if a restaurant can

cook prasadam like they did in the early days in ISKCON, the costumers will

line up all the way out on the street to get it. Let's not forget that

prasadam is one of our most important preaching tools.

 

ys, jdd