RE: Irradiated Meat

["Robinson, Thomas MR" <RobinsoT@WOOD.ARMY.MIL>]

Tell them if they don't want the meat, to freeze it and sent it to me for
free.
	I'll send it to where people are starving and don't care if
radiation was used to kill bacteria, all they want to do is eat a decent
meal.
	If the same people to include reporters were starving, this would
not be an issue.
	By the same token if these people had some knowledge of the process
of food irradiation, they would know that some of the same spices they have
in their kitchens right now and use each day are irradiated during
processing.
	This can be researched on the internet, I did a research paper on
irradiated meats in college.
	Bob you are right a little research goes a long way, but the media
counts on the ignorance of the population.	
	
Thomas Robinson, Jr.
Deputy Director, ERBL
Chief, Tac Rad Div. USACMLS
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Flood [mailto:bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 2:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Irradiated Meat


This "news" item is what I was talking about some time ago when I said that
what the news industry needs is journalists, but all it seems to have left
is reporters. A journalist would have examined the subject sufficiently to
determine that the information being offered is junk, but a reporter just
barfs up whatever he or she has been fed.

>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two Florida grocers halted sales of irradiated meat due
>to lack of consumer interest, which resulted in paltry sales. DeLoach's
Meat
>Market in Lakeland and Stuart's Fine Foods in Stuart decided to stop
selling
>experimental food products to their customers just days after sales began.

This looks like it was staged. Two store owners leave the new product on the
shelves only a couple of days and then just happen to declare the whole
thing a failure at the same time? Amazing coincidence? And Critical Mass
just happens to have a spokesperson ready with a press release? Another
amazing coincidence?

It's hard to imagine the reporter couldn't tell the whole thing was a
set-up. I guess it didn't matter.
============================
Bob Flood
Dosimetry Group Leader
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
bflood@slac.stanford.edu


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