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[–] Wowbagger 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

While I agree that Subway serves subpar chicken that's infused with soy I'd like to point out a flaw in this arbitrary test. Testing for DNA concentrations is not the same as testing the material itself and so they've drawn the wrong conclusion if they say half the "chicken" itself is soy. The issue here is that soy concentrate is used as a preservative for cheap chicken like what Subway serves and plant cells, in general, hold much more DNA than animal cells. In other words, of course if you measure the DNA you're going to find much more soy than chicken since it's literally sprayed with a concentrate of plant cells. This doesn't mean the meat itself is more soy than chicken. It's still terrible for you compared to eating a fresh chicken breast but it's not half soy.

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[–] Wowbagger ago 

Perhaps the people who did the test do but a lot of people read this article and others derived from it and come away with the impression that the meat itself is literally 50%+ soy. I don't want my fellow goats to be misinformed. It's an important distinction. Eating a sandwich with this chicken, although it's definitely soy-ish and not ideal for you is not equivalent to, say- eating an equivalent volume of edamame when it comes to detrimental effects of soy. Come to think of it though, I'd sooner have the edamame with some giant salt grains on it over eating that "bread" and "meat".