Decision Making

Other than the GREAT model, there is the scientific method. Which consists of a series of steps mostly used in examining a science experiment. but it can be adapted to fit every day life. It starts out by analyzing all the available options, or solutions. Then thinking through a possible outcome, that could happen because you made that choice. Based on what you find, making the right choice is allot easier than just flying by the seat of your pants. And mostly you will be satisfied with your decision.

Industrialized Farming

Due to advances in farming technologies, and pesticides. We are able to get a large variety of foods all year around. Especially foods that can not grow in the north, like oranges. Most of the time the food is shipped from distant places, and because of that farmers apply pesticides and chemicals to the food to make them last through the trip. But there are advantages too. For instance, less people can farm and harvest a larger area of land due to advances in farming equipment. I recently saw an episode of How It's Made on the Discovery channel. It showed how egg's that we eat are made. First they get the egg's form a chicken and then the egg is put into a series of machines. Because of this technology we can have eggs every day. But if we did not have the technology to produce large quantity's of eggs then we would have to have a chicken or two at home to get eggs. The same gos for other products, such as bred, jam's and jelly's. Without the technology people would have very little of those goods.

Soy Good or Bad?

From what i have red online soy is only healthy for you in small amounts. But according to many sources, soy increases the levels of estrogen in the human body. Researches have found that, due to the manufacturing, soy products contain abnormally high amounts of aluminum. Dr. Mercola has a short video online, that describes allot about soy and its problems. In the video he mentions that research done on infants that drink soy formula have extremely high levels of estrogen in their body's. Also Dr. Mercola talks about soy impairing thyroid function, and your body's ability to break down protean. So over all i think soy should not be such a widely used ingredient in food. Here is the URL for the video. http://www.mercola.com/article/soy/index.htm