Re: Need to further enlighten a friend of a friend...

[Guest guest]

Well tempeh is Indonesian and natto and tamari are Japanese.

However, the person is clearly being a very suspicious reader. While

temph may not be directly related to Chinese food production

techniques, the others clearly are. And the text says nothing about

the foods actually being Chinese, it merely takes examples of things

that were created in this tradition.

sounds like the guy is looking for excuses to disagree.

Soren

" Randy Wattermann " <wattermann@...> writes:

> Hello all! I passed on the WAPF website to a friend, who also distributed

> it to many folks. One bit of negative feedback he got was the following

> message. I realize we can't convince everybody, but wondered if anyone had

> further information on this person's claim about the soy products that were

> mentioned.

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> Randy Wattermann

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> <SNIP>

> " Hey Bill, just between us, that website you referred us to struck me on

> first impression as a load of bunk. Under " Myths & truths about soy "

> the first statement is so far off it's mind boggling -- It says:Myth:

> Use of soy as a food dates back many thousands of years.

> Truth: Soy was first used as a food during the late Chou dynasty

> (1134-246 BC), only after the Chinese learned to ferment soy beans to

> make foods like tempeh, natto and tamari.

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> NONE OF THOSE FOODS IS CHINESE.

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> Good grief!!! I think it's another propaganda page masquerading as

> information. "

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[Guest guest]

We didn't say they were chinese--we said "like" chinese. We know these foods by their Japanese names (Although I think "tempeh" may be from Indonesia) but the chinese were the first to ferment the soybean. Sally