More on irradiation

BILL DUESING (71042.2023@compuserve.com)
22 Jan 97 04:43:44 EST

The conventional wholesale grower I talked to at a Farm Bureau meeting several
years back said he'd been very interested in food irradiation, until he realized
that it turned beans, his specialty, into hardware, and destroyed any advantage
he had as a local supplier (Connecticut) to supermarkets.

More recently, I've heard from someone involved in the FDA approval process that
irradiation DOES NOT produce predicitable changes in food, but is much more
variable in its effects on the foods that move through its field of energy.
Imagine the varing shapes and zones in chicken carcuses moving at 100s or 1000s
per minute through such a machine. In fact the scale that these machines would
need probably also argue against them.

I've found that it is not possible to believe people who have a financial
interest in nuclear or other industrial-scale, hazardous technologies. Time
and time again they lie about what they know and what they don't know for their
narrow financial benefit.

And thanks Patricia for that Life Force consideration. It may be hard to
quantify, but this force is getting more important by the minute as our culture
destroys it in so many ways and places.

Bill Duesing
Solar Farm Education