Irradiated Food: FDA Says Food In The USA Can Now Be Irradiated
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The FDA has announced that beginning today, spinach and lettuce sold across the United States may now be secretly irradiated before it reaches grocery store shelves.
What’s “secret” about it? The FDA previously decided that irradiation warning stickers would not be required on any food items because it would be “too confusing to consumers.” (The word IRRADIATION apparently has too many letters to be understood to food buyers.)
Thus, irradiated foods will NOT be labeled as such, and consumers are going to be left in the dark about all this.
(Except of course for those who actually eat the irradiated food. They get to find out when they start glowing in the dark).
Radiation, of course, destroys delicate phytochemicals in plants – the very phytochemicals protecting consumers against cancer, heart disease, high cholesterol, inflammation and other diseases. Microwaving broccoli, for example, has been shown to destroy up to 98% of its anti-cancer nutrients. (The FDA has not yet acknowledged this.)
In a similar way, irradiating food can destroys much of its nutritional content, including vitamins, carotenoids, anthocyanins and other delicate protective nutrients.
What you can do right now to attempt to get this changed?
For starters, you can:
1) Grow your own food. A little gardening is good.
Grow whatever you can, even if it’s just a few kitchen herbs.
2) Buy your food at farmer’s markets, coops and CSAs.
See http://www.localharvest.org/csa
3) Ask your grocery store if they are buying irradiated spinach and lettuce. If they don’t know, request that they find out! (They may not know they’re selling food that has been irradiated and isn’t good for consumers…)
4) Write letters and call your Senators and Congresspeople, demanding they pass new laws protecting consumers
from the FDA. With some of the things the FDA has approved recently, it would seem that there are things going on at the FDA that just aren’t good for the nation’s nutritional value in our food supply. This helpful page will let you locate your representative and send them a letter.
Finally, don’t stand for it.
Raise your voice.
Write your local paper, email or call your representatives in Washington and tell them you strongly oppose the irradiation of the food supply.
Read the whole article here: http://www.naturalnews.com/023945.html
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2 Responses to “Irradiated Food: FDA Says Food In The USA Can Now Be Irradiated”
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We’re not really all that excited about the FDA either. Aside from some of the more recent mistakes they have made on prescription drugs, from an outsider’s perspective, it’s an organization which appears to be doing favors for friends in many cases.
Can you share more about what Eugenics is?
I don’t trust the FDA at all.
I believe the FDA is hiding something from the American people.
Smells like Eugenics.