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Going to attempt gluten-free beer battered fish tacos! First shot at it... fingers are crossed. =)

Peter - understood and agreed for the most part. I hope you could tell that my post had a touch of cynicism and a healthy, large grain of salt. Interestingly, the link was provided by some pro-soy people who would WANT to see soy.

That being said, I definitely mean to point out in the mix that there is a LOT we don't know. Any path you choose to explore (allergens, agriculture, autoimmune diseases) have a lot of unknowns. Ask a lot of questions of the right people... and hopefully someone with find some answers. I imagine that there are plenty of poorly researched masters theses out there, but I also imagine some of them led down a groundbreaking path. There are probably also plenty that came up with valid bits of research that were left unexplored.

Scrolling through the posts I noticed a lot of "soy free" people... they might find this interesting. Coincidentally, my nephew is quite allergic to soy and eats eggs all the time without issue.

I have no opinion other than these are certainly interesting concepts that may be jumping off points for someone somewhere. I'm not going to stop eating eggs any time soon... unless I, too, sadly develop an intolerance.

Can you tolerate soy?

Ok, this is weird-maybe way out there, but something I've wondered about. I'm absolutely not credentialed to talk about this, but I wanted to throw it out there and see what y'all had to say. I came across a website selling soy-free eggs (Whaaaa? They must be selling something) so looked into it a bit.

Apparently when chickens eat soy, a (very) small amount of soy isoflavones can be found in the eggs (according to this one study). One would think that if this was an issue that people that couldn't eat soy couldn't eat eggs, right? I'm sure plenty of you don't eat soy and do eat eggs, right?

http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi/Vargas%20Galdos%20Dante%20Miguel%20Marcial.pdf?osu1236706764

So I thought, what the heck are isoflavones and do they have anything to do with allergies or intolerances. Not a scholarly article, but this was a pretty easy to read link about it:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/311412-allergic-reactions-to-soy-isoflavones/

It's a fascinating thing to think about, and kind of bends my brain. Also makes me wonder (after a brief mind-spinning freak out) how if soy is in eggs why not other proteins (*cough*wheat*). But clearly then, we would've noticed that, right (I eat eggs daily!)? (Although I did find a brand of eggs that said they were gluten-free because they don't feed their chickens wheat. SARCASM FONT---->Maybe I'll start marketing gluten-free bananas or something)