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05-21-2007, 11:01 PM
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It's baffling to think the nuclear industry and the global food industry would ever be linked. But they are.
Right now, food treated with ionizing radiation must be labeled as "Treated with irradiation" or "Treated by radiation." But according to Food and Water Watch, the irradiation industry wants to misleadingly label these foods as "electronically pasteurized" or "cold pasteurized.”
Many serious health problems have been observed in lab animals fed irradiated foods, including premature death, cancer, tumors, stillbirths, mutations, organ damage, immune system failure and stunted growth. In one experiment, genetic damage was detected in young children who ate irradiated wheat. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takea...ltl=1179804766
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05-22-2007, 07:12 AM
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Points: 50,721, Level: 100 | Level up: 2%, 0 Points needed | | You know a lot of this was thought about Pasteurization when we started doing it too... If you look back to when it first started happening people were saying it caused all kinds of things, in reality it made milk safer and people healthier... | |
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05-22-2007, 07:44 AM
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05-22-2007, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by tyreay  Also a huge problem are steroids in our meat products!!! | Now that I do agree with... | |
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05-22-2007, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by tadpole256 You know a lot of this was thought about Pasteurization when we started doing it too... If you look back to when it first started happening people were saying it caused all kinds of things, in reality it made milk safer and people healthier... | Why then do they want to pass it off as......... "electronically pasteurized" or "cold pasteurized," which is misleading.
For years, the irradiation industry has had a problem convincing consumers to buy irradiated food. The industry's solution? Don't tell them it's irradiated.
Right now, food treated with ionizing radiation must be labeled as "Treated with irradiation" or "Treated by radiation." The irradiation industry wants to label these foods as "electronically pasteurized" or "cold pasteurized," which is misleading.
Studies have shown irradiation depletes the nutritional content of food and leaves behind chemical byproducts that can lead to promotion of cancer growth and genetic damage. Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
United States Statutes at Large (59th Cong., Sess. I, Chp. 3915, p. 768-772)
AN ACT
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That is shall be unlawful for Columbia any article of food or drug which is adulterated or misbranded, within the meaning of this Act; and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed five hundred dollars or shall be sentenced to one year's imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and for each subsequent offense and conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars or sentenced to one year's imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 
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Stop the madness before us it stops!
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05-22-2007, 12:58 PM
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Points: 50,721, Level: 100 | Level up: 2%, 0 Points needed | | I don't know enough about the subject to make a good decision. I admit I need to read more. But I will say that I do not believe that "Natural" or "Organic" is always best... Sometimes it is, often it isn't... | |
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05-22-2007, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by tadpole256 I don't know enough about the subject to make a good decision. I admit I need to read more. But I will say that I do not believe that "Natural" or "Organic" is always best... Sometimes it is, often it isn't... | Not to mention how produce costs are rising...Organic and natural now aren't very cost affective for the poor and elderly. | |
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