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Dear List,
Many years ago, Vancouver was slated to get a food
irradiaton plant built. Luckily, the owners had many liens against them
and it did not happen, though recently, I discovered a facility was built just
recently in another part of town.
I did extensive reserach into e-beam radiation and
C-60 irradiation on food stuffs. I came to the conclusion that,
economically!!, it was not worth it except for frozen meats and fish, and only
by processing 24 hrs./day. Apples, raspberries were found to be more
susciptible to bruising, molds, etc and made transport more difficult. This was
true of other small fruits and pit fruits. Irradiation caused molecular
changes which made the foods more susceptible to damage while in transport and
disease in storage. It also changed taste and texture. Meats and
fish were then re-processed to mitigate those taste changes-i.e., additives were
needed.
Spices were among the first to be considered
and required very very high doses because of their low water content.
That, I assume, is also true for seeds. Would the seeds be damaged under
low dosage-I don't know if it is under the threshold for nuclear damage and
other molecular damage?
If there was a label excempting irradiation,
then it must be used. Otherwise, bd/organic seeds would not retain their
certification.
In some cases, it was found that irradiation
was the only way to kill certain bugs, eg. the Papaya worm (forget the actual
bug), which until then (1980's) was only treated with double dipping (hot water
dips).
In the 1980's Canada financed the building of a
food irradiation facility in Thailand, which then exported foods irradiated
foods back to the US and Canada. The US and Canada were in the process to
change regulations so that food irradiation was legal in N. America. I assume
that has been done, as a plant exists here in Vancouver.
At the time I was doing this research and active in
protest, the financial arm of the Canadian Nuclear industry got so interested in
myself and my research/protest partner that they sent someone out from Kanata,
ON, to take us out for lunch. They actually considered us a possible threat and wanted to find out more about
us.
Anthr. articles appearing in Germany in
German have confirmed the rumors that the US Gov't/CIA/FBI knew in advance of
the Nine-One-One attacks in advance, but, let it happen to drum up public
support for attacks in Afganistan. It is quite possible that the anthrax
attacks were also Gov't sponsored because the strain was only known to exist in
Gov't labs and it required very high technical knowledge and finesse to grind
the anthrax down to weapons grade.
This is NOT the first time this has been done. It
is now widely known (especially in German publications) that US gov't knew ahead
of the Pearl Harbour attack, but, let it happen in order to get an excuss to
enter the war and sway public opinion. These publications will NOT be
widely circulated in N. America-I think you know the reason why.
Cheers, Michael
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