I so agree with you Sol! I'm sick of this society where no-one takes responsibility for themselves and always has to blame someone or something else! Someone somewhere is going to 'catch' something, and nothing can be done about it. It is all this trying to cover all contingencies which is putting the price of everything up and causing major hardship for all walks of life, especially the service industries. My family are builders, and the health and safety regulations are an impossible nightmare now. They make pricing a job now too much for people to pay, and the best of it is, it makes no difference to the work, or the quality of work. There are still cowboys' out there who *have* all the qualifications and yet still don't do it properly, so it just makes life hard for all those who do. There are also those who have no qualifications, but could do a perfect job, if allowed. I agree with you about the CS too; for me it is a miracle almost cure all. Anything wrong; straight to the CS. No doctors or vets. Just wish I could persuade others to put the same faith in it, but still, if they don't that's their loss isn't it? Dee
-------Original Message------- From: sol Date: 17/06/2008 20:37:56 To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Understanding Food Irradiation... in light of consumer attack I'm not sure what the total ended up being? I'm old enough to remember when salmonella was pretty common. In my youth, "food poisoning" was not all that uncommon. My brother, sister-in-law, and myself all got what I suspect was salmonella from take out tacos. Gave us all a very bad 24-48 hrs, and we ran out of TP, everybody too sick to go get more. It was awful, I was the sickest, and can remember it clearly, but not one of the 3 of us considered suing the taco place, or trying to close them down. We sucked it up and went on, full of pepto-bismol. I guess we were basically healthy enough, nobody went to a doctor and we all recovered. That was a different time, seems like it was a different world, 45 years ago. 228 cases last I heard, out of a population of around 300 million. I'm astonished at the uproar, to tell the truth. Particularly in light of the statistics regarding food borne illnesses on this site: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/Vol5no5/mead.htm In any case, I now have CS, and it has been stopping all consequences whenever I eat "something that has gone off" for the past 6 years or so. One of the many reasons I'm very grateful to have learned about CS, and to be able to make and take all I want whenever I need it. sol
