IP: more on irradiated food dangers [boosting organics] (citizen.org)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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
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> 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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