Sanet Post,Bill Duesing,
More on irradiation
January 22, 1997

The conventional wholesale grower I talked to at a Farm Bureau meeting several years back said he'd been very interested in food irradiation, until he realized that it turned beans, his specialty, into hardware, and destroyed any advantage he had as a local supplier (Connecticut) to supermarkets.

More recently, I've heard from someone involved in the FDA approval process that irradiation DOES NOT produce predicitable changes in food, but is much more variable in its effects on the foods that move through its field of energy. Imagine the varing shapes and zones in chicken carcuses moving at 100s or 1000s per minute through such a machine. In fact the scale that these machines would need probably also argue against them.

I've found that it is not possible to believe people who have a financial interest in nuclear or other industrial-scale, hazardous technologies. Time and time again they lie about what they know and what they don't know for their narrow financial benefit.

And thanks Patricia for that Life Force consideration. It may be hard to quantify, but this force is getting more important by the minute as our culture destroys it in so many ways and places.

Bill Duesing
Solar Farm Education