Re: Consumers Endorse Irradiated Meat in Florida; Food...

[Al Tschaeche <antatnsu@pacbell.net>]

See comment below.

Patricia Milligan wrote:

> If one talks a walk back in time to the early 1900's you will see the same arguments made against the pastuerization of milk.    I suppose that Public Citizen et al would rather prevent a hypothetical, calculated, impossible to identify  death 40 years from now than to prevent many real people from dying real deaths due to  E. Coli .

That is apparently the anti nuclear people's position.  If one considers the real deaths from electricity produced by coal fired plants (real mine deaths, transportation deaths, deaths from effluents and waste from coal plants, etc.) vs the hypothetical deaths from a nuclear power plant accident or from normal operation effluents, it is
clear that the hypothetical deaths carry a greater weight, not only with the antis but with the public as well.  Why this is so is left to the psychologists to explain.  Al Tschaeche antatnsu@pacbell.net

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