no one is saying that either the mail or, in
the case of food irradiation, food, becomes radioactive with
irradiated (though there is a problem with the containment facilities
becoming radioactive over time). But there are a number of
other chemical changes that do take place. I don't know if the
Post article mentioned it (I would doubt it) but there are a lot of
gasses that are dangerous caused by the process.
The Post article, trying to minimize
the issue, just says that when the congressional staffers get
the mail the levels of these gasses have been reduced to safe
levels. the question is: 'Say's who?' If I had the job of
handling irradiated mail, paper that crumbles, plastic that's melted,
and suddenly, while handling the mail, I start feeling sick, and all
the other people I know who handle the same irradiated mail feel
sick, I would suspect that there is something going on that
either no one has discovered yet, or someone is lying.
And the question of the day is 'Why won't the
public eat irradiated steaks?' And the answer is:
Irradiation makes a steak smell like a wet
dog that's been eating on a deer carcass that's been dead up in the
woods for three weeks.' Even if its wholesome (which I don't
believe), its not something that I want to eat.
