Re: Irradiation Of Meat

[fearp@VAX.CS.HSCSYR.EDU (Peter Fear)]

It was probably 51.5 and 48.5 and they rounded both down.

Also, people who are against irradiating meat probably would be more likely
to call than people who would buy the meat. If a good scientific poll were
taken, I'm sure the numbers would be much different.

Pete

> As a follow up to the post about the USTODAY weekend section
> report on the irradiation of meat a couple of weeks ago. They
> had a call in poll Would you buy irradiated meat? They came out with
> the results in this past weekends edition.
>
> 51% said they would
> 48% said they would NOT
>
> (me I am wondering where the other 1% went. You only
> had the two options, and if you didn't have an opinion
> why call in?)
>
> The other thing of course being this only polls people who
> feel strongly enough about the issue to actually pick up a phone
> and call.
> I think in the store more people would buy it out of not caring one way
> or the other. I mean how many people actually LOOK for the cow
> hormone label?
>
> regards
> Andrew
>
>
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> Andrew Buchan Health Physics Technician
> Yale University andrew.buchan@yale.edu
> As always opinions are mine and not to be confused
> with those of Yale University.
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