
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.

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.

Today, August 20, at 1:00pm for one half hour the Liberation Wellness Radio Show will be focusing on the Illinois Prison Soy Lawsuit, filed by the Weston A. Price Foundation. Sally Fallon Morell will be the guest of show host Kevin Brown. Please tune in over the internet.

Prompted by the news of the Illinois prison soy lawsuit, two blog readers ask questions about undoing the damage of too much soy food in a child’s diet. Dr. Kaayla Daniel, who is a nutritionist with an expertise in soy recovery, answers their questions.

Illinois inmates have requested a permanent injunction to halt the use of soy protein as a meat substitute in the Illinois prison system, claiming the diet violates the constitutional guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.
The case is captioned Harris et al. v. Brown et al. and is pending before the Honorable Judge Harold Baker of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The complaint names as defendants the State of Illinois, two administrative agencies, a private corporation that has a contract with the State to provide medical treatment to inmates, and 32 individuals who work for the State and the private corporation…