wrote:
> hello i am new. i have been anti-news group but i think that i will give it
> a try
> i am 21 i have been vegan for 7 years and i have worked at mcdonalds for 6
> years. anyone suprised?

No, I'm not surprised that your life has stagnated at 21 in the mire of
veganism OR the drudgery of working at McD's. Why are you still working
a cash register after six years? Why haven't you become a manager?

> i read the post about the supersize me video. yes there is sugar in the
> fries, and beef. i was chastised one day about telling a customer who was
> obviously trying to cut back on meat (she ordered a bigmac with tomatoes
> instead of meat)

As you should be. It's not your duty to assume customers are trying to
"cut back on" anything.

> i felt morally obgliated to tell her not to eat the fries.

Why? Did she say she didn't want minute amounts of animal parts included
in her meal? If so, why did you not warn her about the bun since it has
dairy?

> what i really wanted to say, i was more disturbed over the segment on public
> schools. it made me sick. absoutly sick. i knew that i would never make my
> children eat a plate lunch, but now i am sure of it. i will send my little
> people to school with homemade baked tofu sandwiches on whole wheat bread i
> made yesterday, with tomato and sprouts, (humm, that sounds good) and their
> little juice box of soy milk. let the other kids poke fun, we'll see who's
> arteries are hardened by 12.

And we'll see whose (NOT who's) hormones go bonkers because of the
phytoestrogens in soy.

See:
http://www.mothering.com/articles/gr...soy_story.html

Rat pups, exposed to high doses of the plant estrogen coumestrol
(found in sunflower seeds and oil and alfalfa sprouts) through
their mother's milk, suffered permanent reproductive problems:
female pups when grown did not ovulate, and males had altered
mounting behavior and fewer ejaculations (2).
[Whitten, P., C. Lewis and F. Naftolin. 1993. A Phytoestrogen
diet induces the premature anovulatory syndrome in lactationally
exposed female rats. Biology of Reproduction 49:1117-21.]

Neonatal and immature rats exposed to coumestrol experienced
estrogen-related responses, such as premature estrous cycles.
Coumestrol also interrupted ovarian cycles in adult female rats
(3).
[Barrett, J. 1996. Phytoestrogens: Friends or Foes?
Environmental Health Perspectives 104:478-82.]

Newborn rats exposed to the phytoestrogen genistein (a compound
found in soy products), experienced altered hormone secretions
and the onset of puberty may have been delayed because female
rats were exposed to the compound as fetuses (3).
[Ibid.]

“In males, levels of 17B-estradiol and testosterone were not
affected, but levels of 3a, 17B- androstanediol glucuronide (a
metabolite of dihydrotestosterone) and dehydroepiandrosterone
sulfate were decreased by 13% and 14%, respectively, after 2-4
weeks of daily soya ingestion.”
[Supported by USPHS CA56273, CA65628, CA45181, John Sealy
Memorial Endowment Fund for Biomedical Research, American
Institute for Cancer Research grant 95B119, and NIH NCRR GCRC
grant M01 RR00073]

All above lifted from:
http://www.cheapbodybuildingsu pplements.com/articles/soyestrogen.shtml

Additionally, see:
http://www.t-mag.com/articles/185soy.html
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/satter6.htm