Soy What?!?

So i was just poking through this wee little paper that gets delivered to our house and what to i find but an article titled, you guessed it, "Soy What?". It was exalting in the "joy" that is soy. Telling us that even though soy isn't the wonder food that we were all led to believe it's still a wondrous thing to eat and everyone should have some in their life.
What bugs me about this, and well many other articles like it is that everyone forgets about the "poor souls" who are soy intolerant, like myself. So now that everyone has joined on the "soy-is-god" band wagon what are us poor soy intolerant people to do?
Well some of you may think, "sure whatever soy intolerant! next thing you'll be selling me ..." I should know i've encountered such responses in my own family. For example, my sister (bless her) who figured since she was gluten/lactose intolerant that really must be my problem and the "soy" issue was just my way of not giving up milk. One soy-protein boosted shake unknowingly consumed by me relieved her of these beliefs as i spent 3 days curled in a ball in screaming pain as my body tried to process something it couldn't digest. I really have to say it wasn't fun. But then again it proved my point so in the end i sorta have to thank her, 'cause there was always that doubt that maybe it wasn't the soy.
Now i'm sure you're wondering why am i ranting about this now?
Well i don't know about you but have y'all noticed the number of products that come with "soy" of some form or another added to them. To clarify, it appears to be the soy protein, soy flour and soy oil (in really high doses) that sets me off. Soy sauce (thank the gods) and soya lecthin don't seem to bother me in the least. or possibly i just never eat enough of either to notice anything. So to continue, they're plunking soy into everything. Not even peanut butter is safe. Damn them at Kraft and Skippy for swapping to the soy oil, i'm now relegated to the crappy not-quite-smooth organic stuff.
There is so far that i can tell only one granola bar on the market that doesn't have soy in it. The salty sweet line by Nature Valley. What i'll never understand is how soy flour makes it into all their other bars but not these to. Either way i thank them for the small graces.
So then there's power bars, in an earthquake i'm shafted, hell even chicken strips aren't safe. I'd been wondering why these chicken strips my mom bought were making my tummy upset. well turns out they're only 20% meat protein, the rest is soy. YARGH!!
my food supply has become severly limited, there's not "Mr. Noodles" like things, many types of bread, or even some types of chips. It's nuts.
Though i guess in a way i do eat healthier because of it, but it's still worrisome as this "soy" bandwagon doesn't seem to be slowing down, and it appears that it will eventually leave those of us who are soy intolerant in the dust.
Either way i dare you to start reading the labels just to find out how many random things people are adding to your "faithful" foods. Probably one of the most hilarious things about soy is the amount of processing it needs to go through so that it's digestible by most humans. The list of chemicals on to tofu pack is rather disturbing especially if you aren't splurging for the organic. And even still, calcium chloride yum.
happy trails
nim