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PCC Natural Markets & The Cornucopia Institute oppose irradiation.
***Please do not allow this to happen to our food supply. When you irradiate food it may kill of bad bacteria, but it also destroys all of the good bacteria and nutrients that our bodies need. When you mess with nature you are messing with our health. You have no idea how this irradiation will affect peoples health in the future. I value fresh food that has not been tampered with and I do not want the food industry or the government tampering with it. Please do not allow this to happen to our food supply. Thank You.
***I would prefer that growers watch the water they use or the fertilizer they use instead of using radiation to fix what the problem truly is. In any case, I do not want my food radiated.
***Please approve the regulations allowing irradiation of lettuce, spinach, and other vegetables.
We want safe food.
*** Rather than destroy the value of our food, find and fine those who do not practice health proceedures.
*** Please DO NOT approve irradiation of our food.
***We are vehemently OPPOSED to the concept of food irradiation!
-The formation of free radicals, which can 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 problems.
-Serious health problems in laboratory testing, including, including premature death, fatal internal bleeding, cancer, stillbirths and other reproductive problems, mutations and other genetic damage, organ malfunctions, stunted growth and vitamin deficiencies.
-The creating mutant forms of dangerous bacteria, like E. coli and Salmonella
-Nutrient loss in foods, including the destruction of vitamins and essential fatty acids.
-The formation of carcinogenic chemicals, like benzene and toluene.
-While irradiated lettuce and spinach must be labeled in supermarkets, there are currently no labeling requirements for restaurants serving irradiated produce or other items. Patrons and clients may consume irradiated lettuce and spinach in the future without their knowledge, nor consent.
-There are many alternatives to irradiation.
PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW THIS TO BE DONE TO OUR FOOD SUPPLY!
kirk francis
langley washington 98260
***Dear FDA:
This is my second email to you because I am not sure the first one was filled out
properly.
Dear Representative of the Government,
I strongly protest the irradiation of foods for the following reasons drawn up by
responsible people who care about the health of each one of us:
Irradiating food makes food more dangerous, not safer. Some major concerns with
food irradiation include:
-The formation of free radicals, which can 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 problems.
-Serious health problems in laboratory testing, including, including premature
death, fatal internal bleeding, cancer, stillbirths and other reproductive problems, mutations and other genetic damage, organ malfunctions, stunted growth and vitamin deficiencies.
-The creating mutant forms of dangerous bacteria, like E. coli and Salmonella
-Nutrient loss in foods, including the destruction of vitamins and essential fatty
acids.
-The formation of carcinogenic chemicals, like benzene and toluene.
-While irradiated lettuce and spinach must be labeled in supermarkets, there are
currently no labeling requirements for restaurants serving irradiated produce or
other items. Patrons and clients may consume irradiated lettuce and spinach in
the future without their knowledge, nor consent.
-There are many alternatives to irradiation. Visit OCA's Irradiation Alternatives
page for more information.
Genie Sachs
***Here's another FDA fiasco in the making. You might be familiar with the recent contamination of some vegetables. Health authorities scrambled to find the
source. It wasn't easy. And, rather than compelling factory farmed-food producers
to clean up their act, the FDA wants to make it easier to distribute contaminated
food.
Here's how the FDA is doing this. The government organization recently
announced that it will allow the irradiation of vegetables, such as spinach and
lettuce, to destroy disease-causing bacteria.
Please think about this decision. Most people eat vegetables because they are
full of life and nutrients. Now, if someone treats them with something that kills life (bacteria), doesn't it make sense that it will also kill the nutrients of the vegetable as well?
Radiation will generate free radicals and toxic molecules that we don't see in nature. This will be extremely dangerous to your immune system. Now supermarkets may be required to label the veggies as irradiated. But restaurants, schools, hospitals, and nursing homes won't have this requirement. You could go for an evening out and come home with a belly full of nuked food. Something stinks here.
***This is a bad idea. Consumers should know what they're eating. Further processing food is never good.
***I am against the government allowing companies to irradiate foods such as lettuce
and spinach. The point of vegetables is to have something coming from nature,
full of nutrients, antioxidants, and enzymes. Irradiation only helps farmers using
unclean farming methods to pass on their defective produce on to unsuspecting
consumers. Please revoke usage of irradiating our food and demand farmers follow good farming practices.
***Please do not irradiate fruits and vegetables.
***Please do not allow the irradiation of fresh vegetables, we already have to
contend with pesticides on our foods. We would like to have all the benefits of
natural foods without altering their physical state.
Sincerely, Dr. Ronald I Glaeser,Anchorage, Alaska
***My wife and I do not want you to irradiate food. You need to find another way to kill bacteria. Our feeling is that anything that kills bacteria will also destroy the nutrient benefits of food. We expect you to do this as senior citizens of our country. Thank you ( liimatta1@comcast.net)
Professor Peter E. Liimatta
5 Thoma Street
Harrington, DE 19952
***Do not Kill nutrients in vegetables by radiation. There will be no point in eating them, as they will introduce toxins into the body. As a retired irrigation engineer I propose that the way to prevent vegetables from picking up toxins in the growing field is to control the irrigation water to eliminate contaminates from being absorbed by the crop.
Lettuce is prone to absorbing contaminates.
***I AM AGAINST IRRIDATION OF LETTUCE AND SPINACH I BELIEVE IT IS NOT GOOD FOR MY WELL BEING.
SANDRA HALL
***The proposed irradiation of lettuce and spinach can pose far more health threats than it solves. Irradiation promotes the formation of free radicals, which can make the body more susceptible to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, liver damage, muscular breakdown and other serious problems. Additional problems include:
-Serious health problems in laboratory testing, including, including premature
death, fatal internal bleeding, cancer, stillbirths and other reproductive problems, mutations and other genetic damage, organ malfunctions, stunted growth and vitamin deficiencies.
-The creating of mutant forms of dangerous bacteria, like E. coli and Salmonella
-Nutrient loss in foods, including the destruction of vitamins and essential fatty
acids.
-The formation of carcinogenic chemicals, like benzene and toluene.
-While irradiated lettuce and spinach must be labeled in supermarkets, there are
currently no labeling requirements for restaurants serving irradiated produce or
other items. Patrons and clients may consume irradiated lettuce and spinach in
the future without their knowledge, nor consent.
-There are many alternatives to irradiation.
The proposed regulations should be stricken or else modified so that everyone will
be informed when they are eating irradiated food.
***Please do not permit the nutrients we need in our vegetables to irradiated out of them. We will be consuming food with no value to our bodies and may well be a source of toxins.
*** I am vehemently and unequivocally opposed to irradiation of produce, or any natural food, being irradiated as a precaution against infection. We have labored for years to find ways to insure good, clean food, and we need to exercise those means--and develop new ones as well, without the use of radiation. I am a cancer survivor, and I have an interest not so much different from all
Americans, to avoid all toxic materials which could negatively impact the
functioning of my body and what natural function and protection it can give me. I do NOT want my food irradiated! That is too easy an answer, and it is not a good answer. Period.
***Are you people crazy. Irradiation kills the nutrients. You're making a big mistake. At least make restaurants label the nuked food. I'm in contact with tens of thousands of people who don't want this to happen.
***I am outraged to think that we have to be exposed to all this governmental red tape to be assured that the simple foods we require to survive will be changed & tampered with. I want to be able to go to the store, restaurants, etc. & be assured that the food my family and myself eat is pure. Other countries probably will not allow their citizens to eat the kind of food you want the American people to eat. I know the Korean people have been rioting, because they do not want to be exposed to Mad Cow Disease! If hormones, radiation any other tampering with proper foods are allowed, I want them clearly marked so that we have a choice to clearly choose what kind of food we want in our bodies.
What are you thinking here? We don't have enough problems getting food to eat on our tables that have good nutritional value and now we're going to kill even more of the value in food. I am not in favor of yet another undocumented experiment on the American public only to find that it's a big problem 30 years from now. As a person with a strong science background, I find it unconscionable that the FDA is again making decisions based on convenience rather than logic or science. How many times must we be subjected to their whims and bad decisions involving our health. Drugs that kill are "ok" and nutrients are a grave danger to us. Do not pass this regulation allowing use of ionizing radiation to further "kill" our food supply.
*** I have not seen double blinded studies which show the absence of harmful chemical changes and the absence of loss of nutritional value in food that is irradiated compared to non irradiated vegetables. I recognize the implied value in spices and certain other food stuffs. I feel it is the job of the FDA to test or oversee extensive testing and publish those tests before releasing this process with vegetables.
Bob Soucy DO
President
New Hampshire Academy Of Family Physicians
7 N. State Street
Concord, NH 03301
***Please don't allow irradiated food. I know it's the apparently simple solution to the mess of contamination due to factory farming. It is NOT, however, the right one. Reform factory farming practices and this will reduce the runoff of e. coli contaminated stool from improperly fed cows and
fowl (grain is NOT their natural food and it is this that causes e. coli overgrowth in their intestines).
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There is much talk that whoever has the biggest purse wins, even with the FDA. Big Pharma has the obvious biggest purse and there is too many leniency on drugs that have not had the proper blind studies. I will not get ugly and say that FDA is on the take but you can be had by looking the other way. Drugs not properly tested are allow to get on the market and the doctors who often do the trials are paid by the drug companies. Integrity seems to be a word lost on your overworked, stretch thin agency. You want to do what is right, but often don't pick up the
guantlet to go the extra mile. All the while, you are scrutinizing food supplement companies by caving into pressure from the drug companies. This is not just a Bush administration thing as this has long been going on.
Irradiating food to lengthen the shelf life is not something the American people want. We ask you to put more stringent testing on this method.
We ask that you not allow untested drugs on the market no matter how great of an idea it is. We ask that you allow food supplements, natural remedies to go through less scrutiny. Does it sound like we are wielding the sword from a certain viewpoint. Yes, it is exactly as it seems. Any one on the outside not paying piper gets axed but those playing the money game gets free reign.
Don't cave into the big money. You're dealing with our lives.
***The few people that get sick each year from food poisoning could not possibly
compare to the number that well get sick, or suffer a health deficiency, over
the course of the next few years as we try yet another scary tactic. Keep your
irradiation to yourself unless you want to require and be a watchdog for
schools, restaurants, etc. More bureaucratic junk coming down the pipes.
Just a concerned parent and teacher.
***As we continue into the future...Gov't is taking more and more control over our free society. A bleak future is the only thing ahead. Health care has been improving, yet cancer rates continue to increase. The food we ingest today was never meant to be put in our bodies. Mutated, genetically modified, grown with nutrient deficient soil, covered with chemicals and now irradiated. It has been shown food today has half the nutrients of fifty years ago. As we continue to modify and process our food supply in the name of profits and to satisfy agricultural groups for a few votes, our nations health is diminishing. Health care costs are soaring.
Doesn't anyone find it odd that cancer, heart disease and a list of other
debilitating health conditions barely existed 60 years ago. A little common sense
says...that if we go back to our roots of when this country was growing back in
the industrial revolution we might find a happier time. Food was healthy, gov't
allowed a healthy growth of industry and energy without excessive over taxation.
Its just cheaper to do business in other countries. Until that changes we will
continue to lose business and the trade deficit grows. I didn't have to get a PHD to have common sense ideas.
***I try to eat healthy foods so that I stay healthy. If foods are irradiated, it kills the nutrients in that food, i.e, the vitamins and minerals and enzymes and healthy flora. Therefore, I don't want my food irradiated and if you are going to allow food irradiated, I want it labeled so that I can avoid it. I do not want to become ill because I am deficient in the vitamins, minerals, enzymes and healthy flora that my body needs to stay healthy.
***Please do not irradiate food. Your arbitrary high settings of cell phone radiation levels have allowed disease levels to soar over the last 20 years. Many people can avoid these products, and the cell phone towers. We will have more people poisoned by food they cannot identify as irradiated. Do not harm our citizens so you can collect bribes from the manufacturers. We would rather take our chances with your inadequate inspections, and the market's ability to teach the farmers what they need to do to avoid ruin for selling poisoned food. We hope the government does not need to learn from this same hard school.
BTC manufactures agriculture research instruments.
***I am against the irradiation of leafy greens and spinach.
***Is this craziness. Please do not put another nail in the coffin of healthy food. Just make the distributors clean up their act.
***Please do not irradiate our food. Take the life out and you take our life out. We should be increasing our immune system so we can eat foods as God intended. Stop giving use lifeless foods that only make us sicker. The industry needs to clean their act up not irradiate our food.
***We do not want any food to be irradiated. That is fooling the consumer and allowing food to be pathogen borne enter the markets and restaurants. Do not think for a minute that this is acceptable. This is not right and as consumers we don't need to read labels on produce do we? What is up with your organization. I belong to a Grass Roots organization that believes we need to privatize your organization and if you proceed with your plans we will see what we can do.Just don't even think of it. How dare you!
***The irradiation of lettuce, spinach, and related foods will destroy the natural nutrients that these vegetables normally provide. Please do not permit this destruction of our health giving foods. At a minimum it should be required that all such nutrient destroyed food be clearly marked, and notice given if served in dining facilities.
***I know that there are alternative methods of making our foods free of bacterial contamination than the use of ionizing radiation.
Please investigate and use an alternative.
***Hey there, I would like to go on record that I want "live" food. NO IRRADIATION of our fresh foods, please!!!!
I am a Health counselor and since wholesale irradiation has been allowed I am
seeing tremendous degradation in digestive health in my clients...There is a far reaching effect that is not being considered in the handling of our foods.
Perhaps we need to restrict the proximity and handling of the poop from the
animal rearing facilities that are contaminating our waterways instead.
This is a Band-aid for a REAL problem that is the quality of our water.... FIX
that!!!! We can live without huge quantities of animal protein but we can't
live without clean water. Make the feed lots treat their momentous poop overflow
and let meat get really expensive so we can return to a balanced diet of all the
food groups. When are we going to wake up. Money is great but life
sustainability is the REAL deal!!!!
***I am against the irradiation of any sort of produce. This will kill enzymes and vitamins, create free radicals and generally change the nutritional content of what should be natural, healthy foods. Also, it should be mandatory that any irradiated food should be clearly labeled as such so that consumers may make an informed decision about what they want to put into their bodies. Please leave real food alone and not alter it through irradiation.
***I believe there must be much more testing of irradiated foods on humans, before the FDA gives the OK to irradiate spinach and lettuce, or any other food product. I am not one of those who is adamantly against irradiation. It's a sure fire solution to destroying pathogens in food. But if the process can compromise the immune system or possibly kill the consumer, it is not wise policy. Please put it off, and require much more extensive testing first. regards, Dr. Robert Burns
***Dear Sir/Madam,
Please do not irradiate our food supply. We need less radiation, not more. You
will be slowly, but surely, killing us.
Thank you.
*** Food irradiation is a pseudo-fix. It's a way to try to come in and clean up problems that are created in the middle of the food production chain. I think it's clearly a disincentive to clean up the problems at the source.
Irradiation is not the solution to food-borne illness. In fact, it serves to
distract attention from the unsanitary conditions of industrial agriculture that
create the problem in the first place.
It's deceptive. An irradiated product looks normal but has invisible reductions
in vitamins and nutrients.
I do not want a bill to pass that it is ok and even worse, Mandatory, that food
should be irradiated.
I realize some foods already have slipped through and are mandated to
irradiate.. BUT NO MORE.. I say NO to irradiating foods.. we must clean up the
food system- from source to shipping..
Large scale Commercial farming often goes unregulated by the farmer simply
because the farm is too large to walk and get intimate with. Land, animals, and
products that are not CARED for by the farmers are open to contamination .
ALSO, commercial operations ship their food thousands of miles and hence need to
store their food in trucks and warehouses that open the food up to contamination.
Family farmers with smaller acreages to take care of, animals that are 'part of
the family', and crops that get hand weeded and looked at on a daily basis are
way less likely to move 'dirty' product through to consumers....
So, if you want to 'mandate' and regulate something ..you should go after the
inherent problems sourced from commercial farming operations.
Sincerely,
Maggie Hoback
Issaquah, Washington
***I would much rather take the risk of food contamination!
***I don't want to eat irradiated food. I and everyone else I know eats out a lot, so restaurants should be required to label their food irradiated, if it is.
Consumers should ALWAYS have a choice between irradiated and non-irradiated
food. Better still: don't irradiate! Think of a better way to make sure food is clean. Thank you.
***I am opposed to having my food nuked. The safety hazards of irradiation and the loss in the quality of food from the practice means I do not want to eat this food. As a consumer and producer I believe this food should be labeled or the practiced outlawed.
***Dear Sirs:
I am sure that you are well aware that today's vegetables contain half the nutrients that they did 30--50 years ago, and that accounts for our deteriorating health problems and building medical catastrophe. I am also sure you are aware of the military studies showing irradiation destroys as much as 8% of vital nutrients in leafy vegetables.
Why then are you going against the Citizen's best interest rather than demanding clean foods be delivered by the grower-processor? You have already destroyed Almonds, where will it stop?
When will you at the FDA take seriously your appointed duty to protect the
consumer, not the grower/big pharma, etc.?
I demand that you disapprove the proposed irradiation of crops. Willis
*** Please don't irradiate our veggies! It kills the good quality of the
food....messes up the nutrients. We can't possibly stay well using irradiated
food. Please don't allow this. Thank you. Patricia Reynolds
***Radiation impacts the cellular structure in ways we do not envision. Stop this
process -- more research is needed!
*** PLEASE DON'T NUKE OUR FOOD!!!
***All foods subject to radiation should be so labeled and mandatory.
***Please do not do this, it kills all nutrients in our food and our food is low as it is because of the land. I am a senior, 74 years old and I have always eaten good fresh food, which is what our bodies need to stay healthy.
Please stop this.
***I am vehemently and unequivocally opposed to irradiation of produce, or any natural food, being irradiated as a precaution against infection. We have labored for years to find ways to insure good, clean food, and we need to exercise those means--and develop new ones as well, without the use
of radiation. I am a cancer survivor, and I have an interest not so much different
from all Americans, to avoid all toxic materials which could negatively impact the
functioning of my body and what natural function and protection it can give me. I do NOT want my food irradiated! That is too easy an answer, and it is not a good answer. Period.
***Please do not pass legislation allowing the irradiation of our foods, i.e. lettuce and spinach. Irradiating foods does more harm than good in the greater system of health. Prolonging shelf life by adding chemicals is ridiculous. We need to eat the freshest vegetables possible w/o added irradiation.
***Each food you begin to Irradiate will be taken off our families list of
consumable foods. We will grow what we can and what we can't grow we will buy Organic. Most of our friends and acquaintances will be doing the same.
We quit using corn products years ago. We can't drink the city water with the fluoride in it, now you are taking our food away from us also. What's next? Have you researched what fluoridation is doing to our bones?
We are very concerned.
***BEING BOTH A BIOCHEMIST AND A BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER, AS WELL AS A NUTRITIONIST AND PATIENT ADVOCATE, AS WELL AS A CONCERNED CITIZEN I
AM VEHEMENTY OPPOSED TO THE IRRADTION OF ANY FOOD PRODUCTS - ALL
IRRADIATION KILLS THE INHERENT VIBRATIONAL ENERGY OF THE FOOD IN
QUESTION AND RENDERS IT INERT AND NON BENEFICIAL - THIS IS ANOTHER
FLAGRENT MISCONCEPTION OF THE FDA, WHICH WE ALL KNOW IS
CONTROLLED BY BIG AGRI BUSINEES TO THE WANTON DISREGARD FOR THE
HEALTH OF THE CONSUMER - WE ARE ALL BUT PAWNS IN THE GAME OF
GREED ON THE PART OF AGRIBUSINESS - AND ASKING FOR OUR OPINION, IF
DISSENTING, IS ONLY TO MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE YOU ARE DOING YOUR JOB
AND ARE CONCERNED - WHY NOT FLOURIDATE THE FOOD, SPRAY WITH MSG,
ADD ALUMINUM LAKE TO MAKE OUR DEMISE MORE RAPID AND PAINFUL?
***For heavens sake make the food industry clean up their act, instead of you nuking our food supply, and making its nutritional content questionable. What a stupid solution !
***please side with the children who will eat the vegetables rather than the producers. Make the producers keep the food clean rather than irradiate it. The impact on biological activity in our diet is uncertain but unlikely to be improved. Charles Lawson M.D.
***Both my wife and I have been against irradiation in the past and are very firm with that decision for this new use of ionizing radiation, just as we were opposed to the heating of almonds. Both destroy needed nutrients. And in both cases, the number of people affected is a very small-very small number.
So please include me and my wife as opposed to this new proposal. I understand
you may not include my wife, but she will also contact you about this.
***Please find a safer way of killing the American public
***Please do NOT irradiate fresh vegetables --or other foods for that
matter!! You and all the rest of us do not know what harm is being done to the
nutrients in food by this process. We also do not know what LONG TERM harmful
effects will result from the mutations and chemical changes caused by this
process.
Why do you not run tests on small animals to see the effects on several
generations of eating irradiated foods. In the meantime place your emphasis on
keeping farms free of harmful bacteria. Sincerely, Edward Fritz
***I work very hard to buy healthy, fresh food for my family. I understand that nutrients are lost in transit/in failed soil/contamination, etc. Irradiation of vegetables will remove not only bad bacteria, but most nutrients, as well. Please follow the lead of the European countries and refrain from permitting irradiation of
our food supply! We may NEVER recover from this one. Sincerely, Barbara Martin
Springfield, NJ 07081
***Please rethink these methods. Irradiating food is not a viable option. The job of the FDA is to protect the public, not the interests of the companies. Irradiation of food is neither logical nor safe.
*** I wish to make my judgement known on the FDA decision to allow radiation of vegetables. Testing has showed that serious heath problems can be caused by this procedure in addition to destruction and dangerous alteration of the food values!
I am against and irradiation being permitted to be used on any food substance.
It is more prudent to set a mouse trap to rid a house of a mouse infestation problem rather than blowing the walls of the house away by attempting to solve the problem by using a SHOTGUN!
Irradiation is a DANGEROUS & LETHAL attempt to solve the problem!
Dr. Donald T Duffy
44 Alexander Avenue
Nutley, NJ 07110
***I believe that this would be absolutely terrible. The nutritional value of the food will be destroyed. If this continues with other healthy foods, our nations' health will be even more at risk. This is a stupid thing to even consider, let alone do. For my family's sake, and for the health of everyone, please do not use irradiation on our food. Thank you!
***Our food is our health. To radiate food because we believe it is unsafe is going in the wrong direction. Radiation itself is unsafe and should not be used on foods in
this country. The European Countries would NEVER do this because they value
food too much.
***Do not allow irradiation of our foods. It has not been proven totally safe.
*** do not kill the good with the bad, let them clean up thier act.
***The disaster that would result from the wholesale use of radiation to zap our vital vegetable and fruit supply is not only irresponsible, it is egregiously diabolic!!! When will Gov't admit the truth that is scientifically proven and irrefutable: that not only does irradiation destroy all the live nutrients that keep us healthy and prevent disease, but irradiation creates carcinogenic and lethal byproducts!!!!????? If ever
there were a systematic conspiracy to destroy our population, this would be a key
tool to foster our demise. Rather than just rail about such unthinkable idiocy, we
do offer a suggestion for remedying the problem.
We urge the powers that be to use rational thought to answer the problem of
contamination of our food supply by eliminating the PROVEN cause of the
contamination, the destructive and unsustainable practice of allowing food crops
to be irrigated by cattle fecal run-off from neighboring pastures, thus infecting the water supply with e. coli and other harmful pathogens! This is the ONLY source of e.coli! If the irradiation of our food supply is allowed to continue and expand, those responsible will one day be called to answer for this debacle.
Respectfully, Anita K.
***Pls. don't allow irradiation of food...it is too controversial in terms of what it does to nutrients in food. It's bad enough we have pesticides!
***I am vehemently and unequivocally opposed to irradiation of produce, or any natural food, being irradiated as a precaution against infection. We have labored for years to find ways to insure good, clean food, and we need to exercise those means--and develop new ones as well, without the use
of radiation. I am a cancer survivor, and I have an interest not so much different
from all Americans, to avoid all toxic materials which could negatively impact the
functioning of my body and what natural function and protection it can give me. I do NOT want my food irradiated! That is too easy an answer, and it is not a good answer. Period.
***HURRAY FOR RUSS MILLER. HIP HIP HURRAY!. HE IS DEAD RIGHT. THE INDUSTRY IS RUNNING AWAY WITH ITSELF AND IMPERILING CONSUMERS.
*** I am completely against growers irradiating my food. ESPECIALLY without even
having to make the general public aware of these foods. Natural bacteria and
immunities to these bacteria developed through exposure are essential! DO NOT
PASS THIS BILL!!!
***Please do not require that our vegetables be irradiated; because, irradiation destroys the nutrients and creates toxic free radicals. Even though you may require that food in the retail stores be labeled irradiated, I will not be informed by any restaurant if their food has been irradiated before I eat it.
***i don't necessarily buy all organics - it depends on the type of food and my ability to pay. but I do not want and will not buy irradiated food.
my concern is increased risk to health from carcinogens, mutant bacteria.
do not use irradiation on spinach and lettuce. these are vegetables very critical to our well being and they make us healthy more often than not, just as they are.
thank you, marjorie nichols
***Both as a health care professional and as an individual, I am deeply concerned regarding the FDA decision to allow irradiation of vegetables without the requirement that all irradiated food is labeled as such. Even though irradiation may kill pathogenic organisms, irradiation also kills the life nutrients of raw vegetables. I personally would not eat irradiated foods, and I also would not recommend irradiated food for my patients. I am concerned that the FDA and the food industry realizes that people would not knowing eat irradiated food and that is why the FDA is not requiring schools, restaurants and hospitals to label irradiated foods. I feel that both as a consumer and as a health care professional, that I have the right to know how any food that I put
in my body is grown and processed. The FDA needs to get back to its purpose of consumer protection. The FDA is not suppose to succumb to the pressures of business lobbyists. The FDA needs to get to the root of the cause
of large numbers of pathogenic organisms in our food supply. The root cause is factory farming and sloppy processing plants. The products of factory farming not only harms the health of Americans, but also destroys the eco-balance of the Earth....How long will it be before we feel the full ramifications of that. Factory farmers may not want to bear the costs of converting to biodynamic farms. But the costs of those farms not doing so is borne in other areas. You put
carginogenic chemicals in the soil and the plants absorb it. Factory farms and processing plants cut corners in the name of profit. The end result is carginogenic food laced with pathogenic organisms.
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