Comments on: Salads To Get New Dressing - Radiation

FDA Now Allows Spinach, Lettuce Sellers To Treat Produce With Radiation To Kill Bacteria

[naturalnews]

In promoting this food radiation policy, the FDA has accomplished what all the terrorists in the world could not: The mass irradiation of the U.S. food supply -- much like setting off a dirty bomb over the nation''s farms (but with less radiation). This destruction of the nutritional value of the food supply is a far greater threat to the health of the U.S. population than any terrorist event, including 9/11. And yet it is being done by our own people, TO our own people, by a lawless agency that answers to no one. FDA officials are not voted into office by the People; they are appointed by politicians. They answer to no one, they refuse to follow federal law, and they operate as tyrants over a quarter of the U.S. economy.
And now they have taken it upon themselves to destroy the national food supply.
Think about this: If the FDA has its way:
%u2022 All your food will be irradiated, pasteurized or killed
%u2022 All your children will be vaccinated
%u2022 All your medicine will be based on pharmaceuticals
%u2022 All your free speech about health will be suppressed
%u2022 All informative labeling on food and supplements will be outlawed
%u2022 Growing and selling non-irradiated garden vegetables will become a crime!

[jeremy4209]

The FDA, of course, insists that the levels of irradiation used to kill e.coli will have no effect whatsoever on the nutritional value of the food. This astonishing statement comes from an agency that doesn''t believe food has any nutritional value in the first place, so lowering the value to zero by destroying all the phytonutrients does not, in the opinion of the FDA, alter its nutritional value at all. Thus, destroying all the anti-cancer nutrients in a head of broccoli merely brings that broccoli into "compliance" as a non-functional food, according to the FDA.

Radiation, of course, destroys delicate phytochemicals in plants -- the very phytochemicals protecting consumers against cancer, heart disease, high cholesterol, inflammation and other diseases. Microwaving broccoli, for example, destroys up to 98% of its anti-cancer nutrients. (The FDA has not yet acknowledged this scientific fact, either.) In a similar way, irradiating food destroys much of its nutritional content, including vitamins, carotenoids, anthocyanins and other delicate protective nutrients that are right now providing the last, desperate nutritional defense against the American diet of meat, milk, fried foods and processed junk.

Irradiating fresh produce will leave the U.S. population is a state of extreme deficiency in protective plant-based nutrients.

[lucky1267]

"There is no residue, there''s nothing left and certainly no radioactivity left," she said.

Hmmmm....I have a bad feeling about all this.

[T2_Squared]

Ok, eggy1620, do you have any crediable evidence that links any true organic grower/farmer (not some big corporation masquarading as organic) with any outbreaks of food poisoning?

Properly prepared & deployed mulch & manure are far safer and environmentally friendly than the petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides used by the giant food producers.

[eggy1620]

t2_bikerider, organic growers are the ones putting raw poo on their crops.

[T2_Squared]

Instead of addresses the very real and multiple problems within the food supply chain of this country we turn to irradiating food. Great. Yet another in a long list of experimental, unproven in its safety & possilby hazardous to you health ideas brought to us by giant agri-business & enabled by thier co-conspirtors at the FDA.

As this article points out, even if you do irradiate, there are still plenty of nasties that will not be affected.

I say employ more of the Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) principle & start cleaning up the food chain at the source, start encouragin more local & organic growers over giant agri-business and make our food supply more safe & reliable.

[eggy1620]

If big nasty corporations were truly trying to poison us, why is our life expectancy INCREASING?

[greeneyes222]

So instead of requiring food safety inspections, the FDA''s going to allow this and try to tell us it makes everything all better?

Not even close.

[idnnsg]

"Consumers worried about salad safety may soon..."

have to give up salad completely to avoid yet ANOTHER poison inflicted on us by the greedy food corporations and their government puppets!

[eggy1620]

Organic low growing (next to the ground) produce is covered in the stuff that falls out of the southbound end of a northbound horse. You bet I want that stuff zapped.

[pirmin3]

Oh joy, one more thing to avoid.

[oneworldusa]

So, the cost of food goes up again and we''ll all get cancer from eathing salad.

[ubrew12]

ibsteve2u said: "Hey, we can lay those sanitation workers and inspectors off...the irradiation equipment should cover our rear ends, and I want more stock options..."

Thats EXACTLY what this is about.
More ''E Coli Conservatism'' from the Bush crowd.

[missingamerica]

The radiation of the produce itself in no way concerns me about either the safety of the product - initially - or the vitamin and mineral content. But I have a little problem with:

[bq]
It doesn''t excuse dirty produce, warned Dr. Laura Tarantino, FDA''s chief of food additive safety. Farms and processors still must follow standard rules to keep the greens as clean as possible and consumers, too, should wash the leaves before eating.
[eq]

With the record of maximizing profits and to hell with all other concerns - to include showing even enough concern for the citizens of our nation and its economy to allow us to think of them as even "mildly" patriotic - you can expect them to think this eventually:

"Hey, we can lay those sanitation workers and inspectors off...the irradiation equipment should cover our rear ends, and I want more stock options..."

[tothestars2]

If radiation is so safe, why are we not building more nuclear plants?

[ubrew12]

"It doesn''t excuse dirty produce", warned Dr. Laura Tarantino, FDA''s chief of food additive safety.

She added: "It just means the FDA can continue excusing dirty produce due to lack of funds without worrying that Americans will get sick from the lack of oversight".

Radiation is a good idea for general produce, but anything that will kill E coli will also destroy many of the biological agents people buy fresh produce for in the first place. Better to pay more for truly fresh produce... non-zapped.

[lovesamerica]

check the label carefully! you may think looking quickly that it says..contains radishes when actually...

[stevador39]

Radiation salad. Yum-yum. I''m not buying it.

The FDA only cares about corporate profit and not the health of the American public and is killing the living enzymes of these leafy greens like that did with nuts and seeds. The harm they do including approving deadly pharmaceuticals is criminal. There board members are always rewarded with a high paying job with a pharmaceutical company when they leave the FDA.

[lovesamerica]

the more sanitized we become the more suceptable we become. Our bodies are germ factories . Use common sense but don''t freak out over germs.