I know it’s Friday, but I saw this. Thank GOD for the FDA keeping our food supply safe. The best comment underneath the article “Of course they had to up the levels to acceptable. From Fukashima alone the levels have gone up. If not, everyone would not be able to afford almost any foods if it was beyond limits. Ban the food grown because it may be high in radiation and what do you have? Total starvation and lack of product to choose from. It is a no win situation.”
After all, better to eat poison and die a slow, painful death than starve. Moron.
http://www.naturalnews.com/038255_radiation_meats_FDA.html
FDA quietly increases allowed radiation doses of meats for human consumption
(NaturalNews) Rather than actually take the time to address the root causes of meat and poultry contamination, which more often than not are a direct result of outrageously unsanitary factory farming practices (http://www.naturalnews.com/025716_antibiotic_animals_antibiotics.html), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has instead decided to simply up the doses of radiation that industrial food producers are allowed to blast on their filthy, contaminated meat products.
In the first new rule recently published in the Federal Register, the FDA specifies that “unrefrigerated uncooked meat” can now be irradiated right alongside refrigerated, frozen and cooked meat. And in the second new rule, the FDA increases the amount of ionizing radiation that can be applied to poultry products such as chicken by 50 percent, bumping the dosage up to 4.5 kilograys (kGy) of radiation from the previous 3.0 kGy.
You can view the two published rules here:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-11-30/pdf/2012-28967.pdf
These two rules, which were enacted quietly and without any media fanfare (big surprise), come more than a decade after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) first petitioned the FDA for their passage back in 1999. And in the years that followed, numerous consumer advocacy and food safety groups decried the proposals, warning that irradiation is dangerous.
But the FDA ignored all the comments made by these groups, which included reputable names like Public Citizen and the Center for Food Safety (CFS), and continued forward with its irradiation agenda. According to Food Safety News (FSN), the FDA actually went so far as to belittle the merit of the input given by these groups, referring to them as “general” comments that did “not contain any substantive information that could be used in a safety evaluation of irradiated poultry.”
FDA ignores science showing dangers of irradiation, claims there are no safety issues. This careless dismissal by the FDA is completely bogus, of course, as the CFS and many other groups have repeatedly offered valid scientific evidence showing that irradiating food denatures its quality, nutritional value, and safety. The production of “unique radiolytic products,” for instance, which include various mutagens, or radioactive substances, is one major negative byproduct of irradiation that is both proven and undeniable.
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/campaign/food-irradiation/
And yet the FDA does not seem to care much about the facts as they concern the safety (or lack thereof) of irradiation, as the rogue agency has been on a crusade for the past several years to irradiate virtually everything that Americans eat. Meat, fruit, spices, breads, you name it — if the grocery store sells it, then the FDA wants to nuke it for your “safety.”
http://www.naturalnews.com/023945.html
And in the rare case that an irradiated food actually bears a proper irradiation label — the FDA, after all, has established incredibly lax rules that allow most irradiated foods to be sold to consumers without labels — the flowery emblem, known as a radura, that has been created for food irradiation is unlikely to have much of an impact anyway, as it was deliberately designed to appear pleasant and insinuate that a product is “natural.” You can view the ridiculous irradiation radura here so you know what to look out for: http://www.naturalnews.com/023945.html
If you wish to truly avoid irradiated foods; however, the best way to do this is to purchase only organic or locally-grown and verified foods. You can also learn more about the history of irradiation and how to spot potentially unlabeled irradiated foods by visiting the following two links:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Irrad/LabelingStatus.cfm and
http://www.organicconsumers.org/irradlink.cfm
Eddie says:
Very predictable. Caveat emptor.
It wiil only get worse, imho.
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7th December 2012 at 2:25 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
They are fucking killing us, I fucking swear it.
Is there one iota of data that irradiating food makes it SAFER? Is there any evidence that ingesting bits of irradiated tissue is either good or bad? No? Okay, well FORWARD into the Obama Brave New World!
Here is my latest planned addtion to my doomstead so I can process MY OWN GRASSFED BEEF.
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7th December 2012 at 3:48 pm
Kill Bill says:
Only the obese will glow.
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7th December 2012 at 3:53 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
Nice Hope!!! The other problem we have is all the damn GMO seed pollen floating around. Just like that book Earth Abides where an airborne virus wipes everyone out in 2 weeks.
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7th December 2012 at 3:53 pm
Stucky says:
Available data is a confusing mix of 1) the Pro crowd and their positive thinking bullshit and, 2) the Con crowd with their fear mongering.
The Con crowd seems to be more illogical and prone to hype. For example — ““Irradiation damages the DNA of the food in question, basically stunting any growth.” No shit, Sherlock. Ohh ahh … damaged DNA!! Well what the fuck happens to DNA when you boil it, freeze it, microwave it, or stick it in a 500 degree oven? Hmmm?
The they talk about irradiation for some foods being the equivalent to 30 million chest x-rays. Yes, that true. But without saying so what they want you to think is that food is now radioactive … just like you would glow in the dark after 30M xrays. Of course, this is total bullshit. Food can be irradiated to 100 million chest xrays. Doesn’t matter. The fact of the matter is that the energy waves ARE NOT RETAINED in the food.
Speaking of that, I learned that a dose of irradiation is usually measured in a unit called the Gray, abbreviated Gy. To kill Salmonella, fresh chicken is irradiated at up to 4.5 kiloGrays, which is, indeed, about 7 million times more irradiation than a single chest X-ray. Fuck Fuck Fuckity!!
I learned that the size of the DNA “target” in the organism is a major factor in Gy strength. Parasites and insect pests, which have large amounts of DNA, are rapidly killed by extremely low doses of irradiation, 0.1 kG or less. On the other end of the scale virus and prion (mad cow disease) particles which do not have nucleic acid at all are virtually impossible to kill via irradiation, except in massive doses.
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So, there are two BIG reasons I would AVOID irradiated food whenever possible.
1) NO ONE — and this is where the PRO crowd is full of shit — has any real data on how many nutrients are lost via irradiation. My thinking mind tells me that if you nuke something to the tune of 7M chest xrays,well, that just can’t be good for enzymes, vitamins, the GOOD bacteria in food, etc. etc.
2) There have been NO LONG TERM tests done regarding human health after eating irradiated foods. This alone, imho, is cause to stay far, far away …. unless you like being a guinea pig.
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7th December 2012 at 5:29 pm
Eddie says:
Actually you can induce radioactivity in food (or anything else) if you hit it with the right amount of energy from the right source.
It’s called induced radiation, and it’s real.
(quoting the FDA website, caps added by me)
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Food does not come in CONTACT with radioactive material during food irradiation, and cannot be contaminated THIS WAY.
Radiation THAT IS TOO ENERGETIC, however, can disrupt the energy balance in the nuclei of food atoms, making them unstable (RADIOACTIVE). This is known as induced radioactivity.
Electron and x-ray beams CAN be energetic enough to induce radioactivity.
To prevent induced radioactivity, FDA limits the energy of the radiation from these sources to less than 4 mega-electron volts. Radiation from cobalt-60 sources is not energetic enough to induce radioactivity.
(sez the government, so you gotta trust them and drink the irradiated kool-aid, right?)
Ask yourself this? Has the government ever lied to you?
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7th December 2012 at 5:44 pm
AWD says:
All that radiation never hurt Homer Simpson, so it won’t hurt you either.
A few point mutations in your DNA is go for ya…You might become an X-man (mutant).
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7th December 2012 at 5:48 pm
IndenturedServant says:
I’m so glad I bought half a steer a few months ago. The taste is so much better than the shit from the grocery store. It smells better raw and smells better cooking. The texture of all cuts, including ground beef, is smooth and fine. Even tougher cuts like round steak are tender enough to cut with a fork. I’ll never eat a store bought steak again.
I picked up my free range, half hog the day before thanksgiving. If you are buying store bought pork, you have no idea what you are missing! I’ll do a post about it soon.
While dining in one of our better local restaurants, I noticed that they listed local suppliers for almost everything on the menu. We are getting ready to buy several free range chickens, ducks and a turkey from one of those suppliers. I had no idea that unmolested, domesticated meat could taste so good. It might even convert a few vegetarians!
Unfortunately, the free range critters I’m eating are probably consuming plenty of radiation a la Fukashima as they range about freely but what are you gonna do? The local fruits and veggies are equally effected so it’s eat or starve.
I_S
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7th December 2012 at 5:56 pm
card802 says:
I’m sure if they radiate shit it would be sterile, but it’s still shit.
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7th December 2012 at 9:12 am