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Hartkeisonline.com highlights important news stories on raw milk, food justice, and small traditional farms from around the country.

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Chicago Tribune Covers Prison Soy Lawsuit

Thomas Salonis Wants to Help Prisoners Obtain Soy Free Diet

Monica Eng, health reporter for the Chicago Tribune is the first mainstream media reporter to document the prison soy diet and its damaging health effects on inmates.

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Blog Reader Inspired to Write in Hopes of Ending Soy Feeding Program

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A plea to the Illinois Governor: please end the cruel soy feeding “experiment” going on in US prisons. Let’s get letters like this sent from all 50 states!

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The Cries in Silence Prison Outsiders Never Hear

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Former Illinois Inmate Thomas Salonis is angry at how indifferent IDOC officials are to the inmates cries for a decent diet. He read his poem to the media.

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Soy Poisoning Happening in Florida Prisons, Too

Wild Fire Sun

James Clark, a Florida prison inmate writes an impassioned plea for a relief from the soy diet and the return of the prison garden, something he believes would help inmates return well to society.

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News Clips of Note

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Kimberly Hartke, Publicist for Weston A. Price Foundation shares a few recent press articles about the soy prison lawsuit and Weston A. Price Foundation, raw milk and other related issues.

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Prison Food: The Grass-fed Model

How Many Cattle on a Green Hill?

Weston A. Price Chapter leader and Local Foods activist Susan Blasko reports on a “pasture to prison cell” program in Virginia, which teaches prisoners how to grow their own grass-fed beef.

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“Soy Destroyed My Health”

A woman struggles to get to the bottom of a mysterious malady, only to discover that following several doctors orders to add soy to her diet caused all the problems.

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The Hidden Dangers of Soy-Revealed!

Hidden Dangers of Soy by Dianne Gregg

Kimberly Hartke reviews a new book, The Hidden Dangers of Soy. Borne out of the near death experience of a woman who thought soy would do great things for her health, this book is a wake up call to others deceived by the aggressive health claims of the soy industry.

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My Loved One is in Prison, and The Soy Diet is Killing Him

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Concerned relative of an Illinois inmate documents the ill effects of the high soy diet fed to the prisoners. The diet is the subject of a lawsuit against the Illinois prison system.

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