your Grandparents are shaking there heads in disgust.

Soy milk? Are you kidding?

My grandparents lived to be 92 and 99. Ate the beef and chickens they raised. Sunday meals consisted of several fried chickens, fried okra, fried squash, real mashed potatoes with plenty of butter, chocolate and pecan pie, and a large pitcher of milk and sweet tea.

When my sweet grandmother died at 99, 3 months shy of 100, the doctors came out and said "If only she had drank soy milk all of her life, she might have made it to 100"

NOT!

Um, the article has nothing to do with the health benefits of drinking one over the other, but rather in the energy needed to produce these products.

That being said, anectdotal evidence about your particular grandparents says very little about the relative healthfullness between these products. For a comparison, many smokers live for a very long time, but that doesn't make smoking healthy.

Also if your granparents raised their own chickens and cows, something tells me they did a bit more manual labor than the average american- meaning they burned off a lot of the calories they ate.

Um, my post was intended to shed light on the multitudes of people that are easily led (like cattle) into doing things (like drinking soy) just because someone else is doing it.

People have lived for hundreds of years without these products. The one thing that would make most people healthier is getting out of the lazyboy and doing some physical labor. All the health food, vegetarian diets, or vegan diets are no substitute for execise and hard work.