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  • From: Leigh Hauter <lh AT pressroom.com>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: NPR/food irradiation
  • Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 18:16:09 -0400


NPR just ran an industry piece on food irradiation. NO critics, little
truth, and most of the facts left out. If you heard this piece call your
local affiliate and complain about the lack of objectivity.

The truth is food irradiation is one more stone in the wall of a
multinational food system. Longer shelf life so food can be kept in
warehouses, shipped long distances, and little attention paid to the health
of the animals being butchered or the sanitary conditions of the meat
processing.

This technology is a way to turn our food system more into an international
concern and less of a local market system.


For more information check out www.citizen.org/cmep.

NPR needs to hear that the public doesn't approve of it running straight
propaganda pieces.

The grocery store mentioned in the story as being a supporter of food
irradiation is believed to get government money to irradiated and GMO food
on its shelves. Why didn't NPR mention this?




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