Irradiation

[TreeLove]

My Co-op gets newsletters from Public Citizen and from the beginning of 2004 they have been really concerned with irradiation of beef and other foods. :(

I am bringing this up because I think it's really important to be aware of what we're eating (carnivore, omnivore, herbivore, snacker, whatever) and this is a school lunch issue too.

Public Citizen and the Center for Food Safety petitioned the FDA to ban irradiated ground beef in the beginning of 2004. The irradiated meat used for a study to determine the safety of irradiation tested positive for 2-ACBs (2-alkylcyclobutanones) which are not found in any kind of non-radiated meat.

The truth of the matter seems to be that no one is really sure how safe it is to irradiate foods.

However, and most disturbing is that a year after this petition for a ban the FDA is trying to allow foods to be exposed to higher levels of radiation. :mad:

the Public Citizen ws is: www.citizen.org and if you search the site for irradiation, you can find their publications on the subject.

Does anyone else know about this process, worry about where the meat is being consumed, and what other foods may be victim to this process?

i'll be on the road to find out, Peace

[toman]

I don't know much about this, so I may be talking out of my ass, but it seems like a bad idea all the way around. We're irradiating food to kill things that make us sick, and at the same time killing everything else that is either good for us or at least doesn't make us sick now. So in the long run we become weaker by eating less nurishing food, and we become more and more susceptible to illness. Sound about right?

[Pedata]

Sounds right, Toman.


Kind of like those pills you can put in river/lake water. They kill everything in the water. Then you drink it and they kill everything good in your digestive tract.

Plus, the pills make the water taste like iodine. Mabye it is iodine? Yuck.

Peace

[toman]

An interesting tidbit about iodine; people who are allergic to shellfish are often allergic to iodine, since there's apparently some relation there. If anyone reading this happens to be one of those people, keep that in mind at the doctor or hospital, or even the body piercing studio. I would imagine that would produce a very nasty reaction...

[PEACE FROG]

I don't know much about this, so I may be talking out of my ass, but it seems like a bad idea all the way around. We're irradiating food to kill things that make us sick, and at the same time killing everything else that is either good for us or at least doesn't make us sick now. So in the long run we become weaker by eating less nurishing food, and we become more and more susceptible to illness. Sound about right? Yes sounds right to me as well. As I'm reading the opinions here, I'm flashing on when I was a boy, they had food like stuff in foil tubes (foodesque). That suposedly had all the nutrition of a full meal, it is, I guess what the Astronauts ate. That and TANG. Anyways it did'nt catch on mainstream, probably still available for survival kits. And I would like to hear/learn more about this, if we could possibly lure some posters away from the Troll wars. BTW Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!!