You would like the FDA to tell you where you can get food from?
More freedom for the consumer, they catch hell, less freedom, they catch hell.
Shelve something because someone had a problem, they catch hell.
Don't respond fast enough in taking things off shelves and they catch hell.
That's gotta be why the FDA exists...just to catch hell.
Oh well, at least that's easier to be perfect at.
10 people out of 100 million get Salmonella and whole industries grind to a
halt with nothing left to eat BUT irradiated imports.
Suck it up industry, and don't raise prices to cover the losses when half a
million tons of produce becomes compost.
..and you wonder why they investigate how to sterilize food with the least
damage possible.
Is some damage better than a nation wide recall? You bet it is.
It's come down to either that, or no cheap commercially grown produce.
So what's it gonna be?
Look out for yourself some, or have someone else do it for you.... then
hamper them into stagnation when doing it is difficult?
Lookie, go to your local organic market where the farmer just down the road
autographs every carrot and pets every chicken and pay the price.
He ALWAYS washes his hands. [not]
Most people in the world grow and pick their own food and eat their "own"
germies?
Others wash and/or blanch it?? [wilted lettuce, very popular ..with
"vinegar" ?? ]
But Americans expect perfection from hordes of cheap illiterate labor that
poops in a ditch like they've done for millennia and won't pay what it
costs to use more educated "American" labor...as though an American would
pick lettuce for *any* wage these days.
Would YOU toast your buttocks bending over in the sun day after day, year
after year for ..oh say... $20 an hour, with benifits?
Would someone else pay that cost when they buy that produce?
Naw. YOU would be the greedy target of consumer complaints.
Crap, I've done my share of migrant labor making $15-$20 a day picking
oranges and grapefruit...it's heat stoke hot, with rattle snakes and
very-sharp-thorns that break off in your finger tips and fester and give
you "Tiger stripe" scratch welts that form scars all over your body.
THOSE GUYS ARE AMAZING
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was pretty tough back then, but I didn't last long. [Rattle snake with
orange sauce is pretty darned tasty, though. ]
Count your blessings that its' not *your* puss getting on the fruit as your
swollen fingers throb all night...just to start over again at dawn, day
after day after sweltering day eating salt pills to stay conscious and very
little breakfast so you don't puke before noon.
I'll take a few second hand gamma rays over another day in the groves, any
time.
If you don't "pick", you don't know what choice is.
..very quick on the condemnation draw.
What happened to walking a mile in anothers shoes?
You have ANY idea what [any] "they" are up against?
No, ya'll never even thought to think about it...just blast away and
never mind the rubble.
No such a thing as a "big picture".
No one else should have problems.
I guess every one *else* is supposed to be perfect and if they aren't,
they're out to kill you.
I do declare! It must be a tough life to not be able to see anything,
but, in shades of black.
Even that Tiger Striped grove worker has joy in his short painful sun
burned life...laughing and singing through it all.
They aren't starving in a mud hovel anymore and life is GOOD.
OK, so if "they" can't do EVERYTHING juuust right, don't do anything at
all..... and it'll be a perfect world.
[Oh wait, no one is doing anything...danged perfect rubble. ]
I think I'll go barbecue a Jewish scapegoat over some worthless dirty
fingered sun dried Mexicans now...that'll fix my attitude.
Then, I too can cringe in fear when someone else isn't doing the impossible
...for me...to make my little closeted dependent life, risk free.
..while others suffer daily realities I could never dream of while sitting
here in the dark with air conditioning and indoor plumbing, expecting
perfection.
..and not knowing a DAMNED THING about what it takes to make things
as-good-as-they-are.
jesus kee-riest
Talk about disgusting.
I mean, get up and walk around a little !!!
Look at the realities of the alternatives before condemning that which
you have no knowledge or experience of.
Ode
At 06:59 AM 6/16/2008 -0400, you wrote:
One disgusting thing after the other seems to be doing what our FDA is
doing. In addition it appears that the FDA has cleared the way for
importation of Chinese chicken. Soon we will be the most unhealthy
population in the world, if we aren't already.
Paula
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Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:33 PM
Subject: CS>Understanding Food Irradiation
> Understanding Food Irradiation
> http://www.centerfo rfoodsafety. org/food_ irrad.cfm
>
> What is Food Irradiation?
>
> Food irradiation uses high-energy Gamma rays, electron beams, or X-rays
(all of which are millions of times more powerful than standard medical
X-rays) to break apart the bacteria and insects that can hide in meat,
grains, and other foods.
>
> Radiation can do strange things to food, by creating substances called
"unique radiolytic products." These irradiation byproducts include a variety
of mutagens - substances that can cause gene mutations, polyploidy (an
abnormal condition in which cells contain more than two sets of chromosomes)
, chromosome aberrations (often associated with cancerous cells), and
dominant lethal mutations (a change in a cell that prevents it from
reproducing) in human cells. Making matters worse, many mutagens are also
carcinogens.
>
> Research also shows that irradiation forms volatile toxic chemicals such
as benzene and toluene, chemicals known or suspected to cause cancer and
birth defects. Irradiation also causes stunted growth in lab animals fed
irradiated foods.
>
> An important 2001 study linked colon tumor promotion in lab rats to
2-alkylcyclobutanon es (2-ACB's), a new chemical compound found only in
irradiated foods. The FDA has never tested the safety of these byproducts.
Irradiation has also been shown to cause the low-level production of furans
(similar to cancer-causing dioxins) in fruit juice.
>
> FDA to Weaken Labeling on Food Irradiation
>
> The FDA has announced a rule to weaken labeling restrictions of irradiated
foods.
>
> Currently, irradiated food must be labeled as "Treated with irradiation"
or "Treated by radiation" and must display the irradiated "radura" symbol.
But now, in yet another attempt to appease industry at the expense of the
public, the FDA has proposed a new rule that would allow irradiated food to
be marketed in some cases without any labeling at all.
>
> In other cases, the rule would allow the terms "electronically
pasteurized" or "cold pasteurized" to replace the use of "irradiated" on
labels. These terms are not used by scientists, but rather are designed to
fool consumers about what's been done to their food.
>
> Food Safety Concerns
>
> In addition to the proposed weakening of the labeling requirements for
irradiated food, FDA's rule would also severely limit them by requiring
companies to label irradiated food only when the radiation treatment causes
a 'material change' to the product.
>
> Examples include changes to the taste, texture, smell or shelf life of a
food. Published research on irradiated foods reveals that irradiation does
change, and can actually ruin, the flavor, odor, appearance, and texture of
food.
>
> Such research repeatedly finds that irradiated foods smell rotten,
metallic, bloody, burnt, grassy, and generally off. The taste has been
described as like sulfur, singed hair, burnt feathers, burnt oil, and rancid
fat. Beyond the obvious yuck factor, serious questions remain as to whether
irradiated foods are safe to eat.
>
> Irradiation Destroys the Vitamin Content of Foods
>
> Irradiated foods can lose from 2-95% of their vitamins. For example,
irradiation can destroy up to 80% of the vitamin A in eggs, up to 95% of the
vitamin A and lutein in green beans, up to 50% of the vitamin A and lutein
in broccoli, and 40% of the beta-carotene in orange juice. Irradiation also
doubles the amount of trans fats in beef.
>
> Despite 50 years of research, food scientists still do not fully
understand how these changes take place. Much of the ongoing research, in
fact, is focused on devising new ways to hide these changes, rather than
addressing the cause of the changes themselves.
>
> Irradiation is Not the Solution to Food-Borne Illness
>
> Using recent food-contamination scandals as a springboard, irradiation has
been touted as the solution to food-borne illness in everything from spinach
to deli meats. But a good, hard look at the systemic food and agricultural
problems that cause these tragic outbreaks in the first place has yet to be
undertaken by government agencies.
>
> Masks the Unsanitary Condition of Factory Farms
>
> Irradiation is an after the fact "solution" that does nothing to address
the unsanitary conditions of factory farms, and actually creates a
disincentive for producers and handlers to take preventative steps in
production in handling.
>
> The longer shelf life created by irradiation (affording longer shipping
distances) also provides greater opportunity for post-treatment
contamination via shipping, handling, etc. Additionally, irradiation does
not work to stop toxins produced by some bacteria (like botulism); viruses,
like foot and mouth disease or hepatitis, are resistant to the irradiation
doses used in food; and prions (thought to be the cause of BSE, or Mad Cow
disease) are resistant as well.
>
> Contributes to Consolidation of the Agriculture Industry and the
Globalization of Food
>
> American food processing companies see the use of irradiation as a
potential means of boosting profits. In fact, the motivation for expanding
irradiation to additional categories of food may be less about getting rid
of disease-causing organisms, and more about increasing market share in
international trade.
>
> Irradiation can dramatically increase the shelf life of food. This gives
corporations more flexibility in marketing and transportation, making it
easier for large companies to move some operations to countries with lower
labor costs and lower sanitary and safety standards. As in many other
"outsourced" industries, American workers, farmers and ranchers, could lose
their jobs.
>
> Food irradiation supports globalization at its worst, where concerns over
long-term health risks carry less weight than the lure of expanded markets.
Additionally, since irradiation has become a tool for the globalization of
U.S. food production, food irradiation procedures are modeled for large,
centralized operations. This furthers the consolidation of "Big Ag"
companies and contributes to the destruction of small U.S. family farms -
further degrading the security and diversity of our food supply.
>
> The Center for Food Safety
> 660 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, #302
> Washington DC 20003
> P: (202)547-9359, F: (202)547-9429
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