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IP: more on irradiated food dangers [boosting organics] (citizen.org)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:09:57 -0500
From: Margoling () aol com Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:04:17 EST Subject: Re: IP: irradiated food dangers [boosting organics] (citizen.org) To: farber () cis upenn edu CC: inventor () pobox com X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118 Dave -- as you probably already know -- irradiated food has been eaten by our Astronauts, Military folks and others -- for DECADES. And irradiation has been used in Canada on potatoes and other farm products to eradicate infestation and in some cases, to discourage budding for longer and safer storage life. The army labs in Natick.Mass have been working with and testing various radiation food preservation techniques for Many DECADES, ergo - safe, easy to store without refrigeration, high flying Astronaut food. Despite all of our artificial food additives, strange and ersatz concoctions, chemicals and varying types of packaging, storage means, aging, curing, fermenting and putrifying cheeses, soy products, eggs and more -- our lifespan has been getting longer, our health better and our kids taller. Is this group -- called something like "Citizens against any kind of innovation" right or wrong? Only time will tell. But they certainly seem to have a Luddite, aged, fermented, smell to them. More -- they seem to be just the kind of folks who would say "Let's crawl back into the past, where we ate rotten, spoilled food, lived less long and died young of horrible but now easily cureable diseases." Dave -- one of my very favorite recent books is one you know, "The Future and Its Enemies." It was written by a brilliant writer and thinker, Virginia Postrel, editor of Reason magazine. She writes about Dynamists -- the Doers and Creators vs the Stasists -- those who are afraid of and avoid change and innovation, even when those changes might be good, very good or even great. Why are they afraid? Because there also might be some bad in all that good. Guess which group the Nader Citizen.org folks belong in. George Margolin inventor () pobox com
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