Food spoils eventually, there are always problems and sometimes
mistakes. When this happens, it is not always someone's fault. As a
nation, we need to get over it. Things happen, life is not without
risk. Once again, when the public, or significant interested parties,
like a large business, demand a no risk situation, it leads to more
regulation, more pesticides, which can lead to worse problems than the
one they are meant to solve. As Ode says, it is not always a foreign
country with lax standards or no oversight.
Many of our small organic farmers were deeply hurt by the floods last
year, probably all the small farmers.
I also read the other day some woman who said that hybridizing was the
same as genetic engineering, which is a bald faced lie- she is a
biologist, and works for GE, so I guess you could expect her to
disseminate such disinformation, but it still angers me. When people
such as she say such lies, it really muddies the issue for the lay
reader. I really don't blame them for being so ignorant- one really
must spend time to find out what is going on. It also does not hurt to
have a good education, and to be taught to think for yourself- which is
a fast disappearing quality in the schools, what with the push for
national standards which by their very nature turn out test taking
graduates, instead of people that can think independently. <sigh> rant
over for now.
Kathryn
On Aug 25, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Ode Coyote wrote:
To unmix contexts.
Growers hybridize and use refrigerated transport to reduce spoilage.
[You can't buy a tasty tomato in a store any more, they are bred to
ship. Refrigerating tomatoes spoils them. ] Irradiation is for germs
on the surface to prevent massive recalls of *not* spoiled foods.
If it were spoiled, it would not have sold...people don't buy spoiled
food and a lot of it does spoil and most gets thrown away before it
does..go look in a store dumpster any day.
Irradiation only kills what's there now and doesn't stop what may get
there to spoil the food later..like mold spoors that are everywhere
and ethylene gas naturally emitted by the food as it ages. The
"bacteria" DOESN'T spoil the food, it just makes it dangerous to
eat.....that's the problem. The buyers AND sellers can't tell,
because, it ISN'T "spoiled". The more recent really big recalls due
to bacterial contamination originated in the USA, not some foreign
country with low standards.
That put several big businesses out of business, because their profits
ARE marginal. The big money comes with big volume as does the big
loss when that big volume gets recalled.
Antitrust laws are for when one company controls the entire market.
The food industry is by no means a monopoly. There are thousands of
companies, big and small. The little ones roasted by a recall don't
make headlines. The big ones make better more sensational targets.
ode
At 05:32 PM 8/23/2008 -0400, you wrote:
I am for voting for our politicians who enforce our antitrust laws.
Perhaps Google would produce such a list. Faith G.
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