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  • From: "Dave Bennett" <dbennett AT micoks.net>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: NPR/food irradiation
  • Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 6:17:00 -0500


Again you've hit every topic but the one we're discussing! Stop telling me to
"look at the test documents". I posted my sources. Post yours to back up your
original statement & stop trying to sidestep the issue.

Leigh Hauter <lh AT pressroom.com> wrote:
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>Dave,
>
>I don't understand your point. If you don't like Ralph Nader and Public
>Citizen, go to the irradiating facilities documents. They are irradiating
>food. This is what they do. Depending on the type of food being irradiated
>the facility generates a level of ionizing irradiation that is the
>equivalent of between 10,000 and 70,000 chest x-rays. Is it the comparison
>of chest x-rays that you don't like? Well, sorry about that.
>
>As far as the food sometime becoming radioactive, if you look at the test
>documents on this process there have been cases of inability to control the
>irradiation that have left the material being irradiated radioactive. OOPS.
>
>Again, the basic point is a criticism is of the sanitary practices of the
>corporate meat industry. I know this is a sore point with you, but the
>truth is, profits do not make clean, wholesome food. I want my hamburger
>and chicken without puss, feces and urine, no matter whether the bacteria
>have been killed by irradiation or not. The solution is a clean,
>wholesome food system. Not profit maximizing technical fixes.
>
>Stop the privatization of meat inspection..
>Animals should be raised in a wholesome humane environment.
>Sick and diseased animals should not be processed as food.
>


Dave




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