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Soaring soyabean price stirs anger among poor By Raphael Minder in Hong Kong, John Aglionby in Jakarta and Jung-a Song in Seoul Published: January 18 2008 02:29 | Last updated: January 18 2008 02:29 During the ancient Zhou dynasty, soyabeans were among China’s five sacred grains. Thousands of years later soyabeans maintain their importance to the Chinese and most other Asians, but they have recently triggered much more down-to-earth preoccupations. On Monday, 10,000 Indonesians demonstrated outside the presidential palace in Jakarta after soyabean prices soared more than 50 per cent in the past month and 125 per cent over the...

There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular. Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless it's organic. I state my bias here just so you'll know I'm not anti-health food. The dangerous food I'm speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they're all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore. I have nothing against an occasional soy snack. Soy is nutritious and contains lots of...

They don't look like much, those beans cupped in Kevin Cole's work-stained hands. But soybeans -- about the size of rosary beads -- will be the main ingredient in biofuel produced at the old International Paper site starting next fall. Lake Erie Biofuels will consume 750,000 acres of soybeans each year. So could these little beans cupped in Cole's hands be the salvation for area farmers? Doubtful. Local farmers like Kevin Cole aren't expecting to see any more of an impact than their peers nationwide. That's because the 21,000 acres of beans grown in Erie and Crawford counties is, literally,...

Pots of soybeans don't bubble on Stan Gasperson's stove anymore. The creator of a soybean-based hair dye has cooked up something else -- a product made from corn, rosemary and other herbs that Gasperson claims grows hair. RestHAIRation is actually an entire hair care system featuring shampoo, conditioner and spray gel. The owner of Creative Cuts at 813 E. Grove St., Bloomington, took more than two years to develop the products. He tested RestHAIRation on about 2,000 willing participants, including himself. "Rogaine is the only hair growth product approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Because FDA won't approve...

<p>SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa — A gas explosion rocked a soybean (search) processing plant in western Iowa on Friday, injuring eight people and sparking a fire, authorities said.</p> <p>Fire crews extinguished the blaze after four hours at the Ag Processing Inc. plant, about 20 miles south of Sioux City (search), said Woodbury County Emergency Management Coordinator Gary Brown.</p>