Irradiated Meat: "Yea" or "Nay" in YOUR diet? It's been highly touted as being apparently all very well and good concerning its alleged abatement of fearful & toxic contaminants such as e.Coli, salmonella, listeria, and things like these... http://www.mindfully.org/Food/2003/Irradiated-Meat-TruthAug03.htm There IS just ONE (possible) mitigating factor in all this that has never been touched on.. The long-term cumulative effect of said irradiated foodstuff in the digestive tracts of the consumer at large.... I have my suspicions about it all...Like my thoughts about AVANDIA... ( http://www.whitewomenblackmen.com/forum/showthread.php?p=282483 ) To make a long story short...Me and Mellisa shall merely continue with OUR meticulous, careful, and THOUROUGH washing and cooking, eh? 'Nuff Said.. OpinionsCartoonStudios@Yahoo.Co.UK
If you cook meats to the proper recommended temperature is irradiation necessary? That would destoy pretty much all bacteria. I don't eat all that much meat so for me I would say no to the risk of the unknowns with irradiation.
I dont want to eat irradiated food, but how much can I really legitimately complain about it because I have worked with (been exposed) isotopes for years now. We get our beef from a co-op. We pay a farmer to raise a cow without antibiotics or hormones and we split it 4 ways. I would love to get a vegetable co-op going but just havent had the time.