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Food Irradiation Issues

Did you know that the major Food Markets are planning to irradiate our food! Please don't allow this.

What the heck is Food Irradiation? There are two sides to this coin. You should learn both before you make your own decision on this issue.

Why is food irradiated?

Food is irradiated to provide the same benefits as when it is processed by heat, refrigeration, freezing or treated with chemicals to destroy insects, fungi or bacterial that cause food to spoil or cause human disease and to make it possible to keep food longer and in better condition in warehouses and homes.

Because irradiation destroys disease-causing bacteria and reduces the incidence of food borne illness, hospitals sometimes use irradiation to sterilize food for immuno-compromised patients.

Food irradiation: Many of my commentators seem concerned over my stance on irradiated foods. The FDA has proven it safe, right? Heh... well, we all know what I think of the FDA. Anyhow, I am not prepared to write an extensive essay on the matter, but these two particular issues concern me most:

1.) Irradiating foods, especially meats, encourage unsanitary meat processing practices. Meat processing is already in a terrible state as it stands, and if the processing plant is full of little nasties like e.coli and friends, irradiation will kill those guys so no worries. Having a little fecal matter with your beef won't make you sick because it has been irradiated. I prefer to eat foods that are as fresh as possible and farmed in humane ways as well as packaged in sanitary facilities that do not need irradiation.

2.) Secondly, irradiation kills bad bacteria, but it also kills beneficial bacteria and enzymes needed to digest the food. Irradiation extends the shelf life of foods because it is essentially the enzymes that cause it to decompose. Frankly, I want my food to go bad. That means it is packed full of enzymes and other goodies.

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The other side of the coin.

Food Irradiation

When high intensity, high energy gamma rays bombard the molecules of the food, they at random knock electrons out of atoms of these molecules. These electrons generally are given high kinetic energy from their encounter with the gamma ray photon. So much kinetic energy that as these electrons travel through the food they leave behind them a track of thousands of broken and rearranged chemical bonds from many of the molecules they have collided with. The resultant molecules of these electron collisions are quite often harmful to your body's chemistry. Some are free radical compounds that can destroy many of your body's enzymes, attack cell membranes and rearrange protein molecules. All of these toxic, unwanted and unnatural compounds must be dealt with by the body cells and, in particular, must be gotten rid of by the liver and kidneys. The advocates of food irradiation apparently have no idea of the vast numbers of chemical compounds created by food irradiation.

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