FOOD IRRADIATION TRUTH
If you are not sure whether your food has been IRRADIATED, you are not alone. More and more food is being irradiated, and like so many other hazardless materials like MSG, is being disguised and hidden from the consumer’s view. Getting around labeling laws is the new hide and seek game big companies are playing with your health and welfare. This should scare the hell out of you and encourage you to shop at Whole Foods or some other reputable food store like Trader Joe’s that go out of their way to avoid these poisoness products. Vote with your wallet. Do not buy anything that has been irradiated if you value your health. Here is why: Food Irradiation Q&As
“Irradiated food has caused a myriad of health problems in laboratory animals (and people in a few studies), including chromosomal damage, immune and reproductive problems, kidney damage, tumors, internal bleeding, low birth weight, and nutritional muscular dystrophy.
Irradiation leads to the formation of Unique Radiolytic Products, mysterious chemical compounds that have not been identified or studied for their potential harm to humans. These products are free radicals, which set off chain reactions in the body that destroy antioxidants, tear apart cell membranes, and make the body more susceptible to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, liver damage, muscular breakdown, and other serious health problems.
Irradiation does nothing to remove the feces, urine, pus, vomit and tumors often left on beef, chicken, and lamb as the result of filthy and inhumane slaughterhouse conditions. These conditions have worsened as conveyer belts have speeded up (400 cow carcasses are processed per hour nowadays) and public oversight of slaughterhouses has been reduced.
Irradiation can spawn mutant forms of E. coli, Salmonella and other harmful bacteria, making them more difficult to kill.
Irradiation destroys vitamins, nutrients and essential fatty acids, including up to 95 percent of vitamin A in chicken and 86 percent of vitamin B in oats. In some foods, irradiation can actually intensify the vitamin and nutrient loss caused by cooking.
http://www.mercola.com/article/irradiated/irradiation.htm
Want more scary facts? Read this short page by a physicist that confirms much of what Dr. Mercola said. Buyer beware is not just words.
“I am a physicist and the scientific advisor to the National Health Federation. I would like to state unequivocally that anyone who supports the use of food irradiation is at best very ignorant of the pertinent facts. The consumption of moderate amounts of irradiated food on a regular basis is potentially very detrimental to your health and can be expected to greatly shorten your life span. The explanation for this is straight forward and is as follows……..”
See the complete letter at:
http://www.rifeenergymedicine.com/Irradiating.html
For some proven techniques to moderate or eliminate the effects of ionizing radiation this article is the best around:
http://rifeenergymedicine.com/Radiationprotection.html
Radiation and Vitamin C destruction:
http://foodirradiationinfo.org/pdf/fivitaminc.pdf
Message from Whole Foods:
Irradiation and Your Food
What is irradiation?
Irradiation is a method of food preservation in which foods are treated with ionizing radiation from Cobalt 60, Cesium 137, X-rays, or high energy electron beams from machine sources. Irradiation is also referred to as "ionizing radiation" because it produces energy waves strong enough to dislodge electrons from atoms and molecules, thereby converting them to electrically charged particles called ions. Other terms commonly used to identify ionizing irradiation are "cold pasteurization" and "irradiation pasteurization."
Gamma rays produced from Cobalt 60 and Cesium 137 and X-rays are able to penetrate food to greater depths than electron beams, which can only penetrate a maximum of one inch below the surface of most foods (three inches if irradiated from both sides of the food). While electron beams are not produced from radioactive sources and therefore have no resultant radioactive waste, they do produce ionizing changes in foods, just as the other irradiation energy sources do.
Complete article at:
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/foodsafety/irradiation.html
Not convinced yet? Well, all we can say is at least you can ride your bicycle at night now without any head lights.
