Being someone who tries her best at eating healthy, at least 85% of the time. I'm a little concerned, no I should say a lot concerned, about what some are doing to our food. Let me write a few words from an article I read.......
We're facing a strategic compaign mounted by huge and powerful forces concerned with profit, not our health, and they're not going to go away quietly.
Food irradiation is not, as you might think, an outgrowth of the farming or food industries. It comes to us directly from the Department of Energy in it's efforts to find a commercially viable destination for the nuclear waste our defense industry has created. In short, it's the ultimate solution to nuclear waste: Make it profitable. The idea was to sell it to private facilities that would then use it-with precious little government supervision-to treat the food destined for our dinner tables. To quote James Michael Lennon, the director of the American Natural Hygiene Society, food irradiation is "technology in search of a use. It creates a mushrooming of toxic waste sites, and the unmonitored transporting of contamination of our neighborhoods and communities". The process of food irradiation can never be environmentally safe. Radioactive ingredients materials are hazardous where they are produced, hazardous as they travel, and hazardous in exposure to any living thing. The risk of nuclear accidents escalates as each irradiation site is opened.
The FDA, which has no program to monitor food irradiation, nonetheless declares that it is safe! This judgement of safety was made after studying only 5 out of 441 studies on potential toxicity. Two of the studies were declared flawed. In a third, animals fed irradiated food experienced weight loss and miscarriage. One possible cause: the vitamin E deficiency induced in irradiated offd. In the fourth and fifth studies, lower levels of irradiation were measured than those currently approved by the FDA for our food.
The argument is that food irradiation preserves our food, quaranteeing a longer shelf life. The admitted damage to our food created by food irradiation is declared "acceptable". In fact, every change in the intrinsic nature of food is harmful, and the foods that would be harmed the most by food irradiation are the fresh fruits and vegetables we rely on for health. Even cooking destroys essential nutrients in these foods, such as the life-enhancing enzymes. The idea that food irradiation preserves food is misleading, since the process sim;y changes how food spoils, carrying with it new risk factors such as reduced levels of certain vitamins and bacterial contamination. All the supposed benefits that are attributed to the process are already obtained from other less expenseive, far less dangerous processes. These foods are damaged, not preserved.
I don''t know about you, but come on !
