Re[2]: CHOICE? with Food Irradiation

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     I believe the Food and Water group is the same group that was entirely 
     discredited in the 20/20 piece.  Read the other thread about that 
     20/20 piece, it appears that someone remembers it as well and offers 
     some additional points.
     
     These guys are charlatans at best.  These are the type of people that 
     go to college campuses and inflame ignorant youngsters and use them to 
     do their protesting for them.  These guys are trash.  I 
     whole-heartedly stand by my opinion.
     
     Glen Vickers


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Subject: Re: CHOICE? with Food Irradiation
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at INTERNET
Date:    12/13/96 4:20 PM


At 08:05 13.12.1996 -0600, you wrote: 
>Dr. Schoenhofer and others,
>
>I must beg to differ, not so much in what you said concerning labeling and 
>the choices people make, but in your premise.  Food and Water, the lobbying 
>group who is spearheading this effort to discourage Hormel from using 
>irradiation, is in fact, taking the decision OUT of the process.  They are 
>not, as Glen Vickers put it, "mom at the grocery store," offering an 
>opinion.  They are a well-organized, often misinformed group of 
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Scott,
     
You describe the typical "green" group.
     
I regret the death of any child, of any grown-up. I regret the death of 
thousands and millions of children in underdeveloped countries starving to 
death and who die on diseases which with out Western medicine could be 
easily eradicated. Sorry, call me brutal or irresponsable, whatever you 
like, but the death of ten children in the Western world, caused by 
Escherichia coli is no reason for me, why all food has to be irradiated. I 
also wonder, how E. coli can be in apple juice - I suppose it was a lack of 
hygiene. Just in that case there are enough other methods available to 
sterilize the juice. You mention the costs - may I draw the conclusion, that 
these children had to die, because the company wanted to avoid the costs for 
sterilisation? The starving of million children in underdeveloped countries 
i s  a reason in my opinion to irradiate food to avoid infestation with 
insects and spoilage. 
     
I assure everybody again, that I am not against irradiation of food, but it 
should be applied in cases, where it makes sense. 
     
I hope, Scott, that you did not recommend to treat all food with no 
exception by irradiation as a precaution. Many foodstuffs are not suitable 
at all for that treatment. What a market! What a profit! Would not this be 
an excellent argument for these "green" groups?
     
Franz
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