Fwd: Action Alert! Fax these retailers and tell them you will not buy irradiated food!

["Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov>]

The following email was sent out to several anti-nuclear email
lists.  I thought some of you would be interested in sending your
own faxes.

Mike ... mcbaker@lanl.gov



>    Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:06:13
> -0400
>    From: "Noel Petrie"
> <npetrie@citizen.org>
> Subject: Action Alert! Fax these retailers and tell them you will not buy
> irradiated food!
>
> Action Alert! Fax these retailers and tell them you will not buy
> irradiated food!
>
> http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax.htm
>
> While the sale of irradiated beef was in February 2000, other irradiated
> foods have been legally sold in the U.S. since 1983. The sale of
> irradiated spices and seasons were legalized in that year. Irradiated
> pork followed in 1985 and the irradiation of fruits, vegetables and
> fungus (mushrooms) became legal in 1986. A significant portion of our
> diet can now be irradiated, even though the studies that FDA relied upon
> to allow this process did not even meet the agency's own scientific
> standards.
>
> These foods, when sold individually must be labeled "treated with
> [or by] irradiation" and accompanied by the radura. 
> Conversely, when these foods are mixed in to a fruit cup, for example,
> the fruit cup does not need to bear the label. Unfortunately, we may
> never know what foods we're eating contains irradiated items. 
>
> But we can stop the sale of irradiated foods with your help. 
>
> Please use our website to fax the CEOs of Philip Morris (which owns Kraft
> Foods, Boca Burger, and Miller Brewing Company), Kraft, Del Monte,
> Wal-Mart, Tysons Foods. 
>
> Tell the CEOs of these companies you are concerned about irradiation and
> request that they refrain from selling irradiated foods. 
>
> http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax.htm