Irradiated Spinach to Start Tomorrow... Why you Should NOT eat it...

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Look for this Symbol (in any color) - If it is a fresh product Don't Buy

It.

The irradiation industry, and governments world wide, have touted the

effective irradiation of food products as a means to kill various and

harmful bacteria and viruses. Unfortunately what they are not telling

you is that in study after study there have been a plethora of negative

side effects of FRESHLY irradiated products in test animals. Signs

exhibited ranged from weakened immune systems, to weight loss, to other

aberations in the test subject.

What is interesting to note is that food stored for 6 weeks after

irradiation (such as grain products and spices) did not exhibit these

effects in nearly so strongly a manner..

Finally those of you who take the time to read the whole posting will

quickly realize the con-job about to be played on the unsuspecting

public. As you will read, the FDA has already basically sided with Big

Business at the cost of your health. That means ONLY YOU WILL INFORM

YOUR NEIGHBOUR. The FDA, the Media, and other Bodies will do NOTHING to

tell you the truth about the dangerous side effects of freshly

irradiated food.. It is up to you to copy this post and share with as

many people as possible. Then when enough people know the difference we

can exert serious pressure to keep our food unirradiated and simply get

the food industry to simply use GOOD HYGIENE PRACTISES.

http://www.truehealth.org/nukedfood.html

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Catch the FDA Lying to Your Face..

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Dr. Tarantino, director of the Office of Food Additive Safety at

the F.D.A., said the agency had found no serious nutritional or safety

changes associated with irradiation of spinach or lettuce.

" These irradiated foods are not less safe than others, " Dr. Tarantino

said, " and the doses are effective in reducing the level of

disease-causing micro-organisms. "

Catch the FDA and their plans for Super-Weak Irradiation Labelling

- They are considering lowering the labelling standard with terms like

'electronically pasteurized' and 'cold pasteurized' - SO WATCH FOR IT.

" Acceptance of irradiated food would get a boost if it didn't have to be

labeled as such, Doyle said. There's a food industry proposal before the

FDA to do just that, allowing processors to use the broad term

" pasteurized " for several processes that kill pathogens, including

irradiation. "

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Original Article:

L. Tritsch, PhD

Cancer Research Scientist, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, New York

State Department of Health.

I am speaking as a private citizen, and my opinions are my own, based on

thirty-three years of experience since my doctorate at Cornell Medical

College, Rockefeller University and, since 1959, as a cancer research

scientist and biochemist at Roswell.

I am opposed to consuming irradiated food because of the abundant and

convincing evidence in the refereed scientific literature that the

condensation products of the free radicals formed during irradiation

produce statistically significant increases in carcinogenesis,

mutagenesis and cardiovascular disease in animals and man. I will not

address the reported destruction of vitamins and other nutrients (what?

- more nutrient deficiencies?; my comment) by irradiation because

suitable supplementation of the diet can prevent the development of such

potential deficiencies. However, I cannot protect myself from the

carcinogenic and other harmful insults to the body placed into the food

supples and I can see no tangible benefit to be traded for the possible

increased incidence of malignant disease one to three decades in the

future.

Irradiation works by splitting chemical bonds in molecules with high

energy beams to form ions and free radicals. When sufficient critical

bonds are split in organisms contaminating a food, the organism is

killed. Comparable bonds are split in the food. Ions are stable; free

radicals contain an unpaired electron and are inherently unstable and

therefore reactive. How long free radicals remain in food treated with a

given dose of radiation or the reaction products formed in a given food

cannot be calculated but must be tested experimentally for each food.

Different doses of radiation will produce different amounts and kinds of

products.

The kinds of bonds split in a given molecule are governed by statistical

considerations. Thus, while most molecules of a given fatty acid, for

example, may be split in a certain manner, other molecules of the same

fatty acid will be split differently. A free radical can either combine

with another free radical to form a stable compound, or it can initiate

a [chemical] chain reaction by reacting with a stable molecule to form

another free radical, et cetera, until the chain is terminated by the

reaction of two free radicals to form a stable compound. These reactions

continue long after the irradiation procedure.

I am bringing this up to give you a rationale for the vast number of new

molecules that can be formed from irradiation of a single molecular

species, to say nothing of a complicated mixture such as food.

Furthermore, the final number and types of new molecules formed will

depend on the other molecules present in the sample. Thus, free radicals

originating from fats could form new compounds with proteins, nucleic

acids [DNA], and so forth.

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Abstracts: [from the public archives of the National Library of

Medicine <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi> ]

1) Micronucleus test in mice fed on an irradiated diet.

Jpn J Vet Res 1989 Apr;37(2):41-7

Endoh D, Hashimoto N, Sato F, Kuwabara M.

A mutagenicity study was carried out in mice fed on a gamma-irradiated

diet. As an indicator of mutagenic activity, we observed an incidence of

micronuclei in erythrocytes. The average body weight of the mice fed on

the diet irradiated to dose range of 400-1,000 kGy decreased, and the

mice fed on the 800-1,000 kGy-irradiated diet died during the period

from 8 to 14 days after the start of feeding. On the other hand, when

the mutagenic activity of the irradiated diet was tested by observing

occurrence of micronucleus in erythrocytes, no significant increase was

recognized. These results indicated that the irradiated diet had no

mutagenic activity, even though it possessed a toxic effect on the

growth of mice. PMID: 2779058 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2) Genetic effects of feeding irradiated wheat to mice.

Can J Genet Cytol 1976 Jun;18(2):231-8

Vijayalaxmi.

The effects of feeding irradiated wheat in mice on bone marrow and

testis chromosomes, germ cell numbers and dominant lethal mutations were

investigated. Feeding of freshly irradiated wheat resulted in

significantly increased incidence of polyploid cells in bone marrow,

aneuploid cells in testis, reduction in number of spermatogonia of types

A, B and resting primary spermatocytes as well as a higher mutagenic

index. Such a response was not observed when mice were fed stored

irradiated wheat. Also there was no difference between the mice fed

un-irradiated wheat and stored irradiated wheat. PMID: 990994 [PubMed -

indexed for MEDLINE]

3) Chromosome studies on bone marrow cells of Chinese hamsters fed a

radiosterilized diet.

Toxicology 1977 Oct;8(2):213-22

Renner HW.

Metaphase preparations of chromosomes from bone marrow cells of Chinese

hamsters were examined for mutagenic effects following the feeding of a

radiosterilized diet. No increase in the incidence of structural

chromosomal aberrations was observed. As far as numerical aberrrations

were concerned, the proportion of cells with polyploidy increased to

between 4 to 5 times the control level, irrespective of the moisture

content of the diet. This polyploidy effect occurred very early, being

detectable within 24 h, if the diet fed had been irradiated with an

absorbed dose of 4.5 - 10(6) rad. The incidence of polyploidy remained

below 0.5%, however, nor did it rise with higher radiation doses. When

the feeding of the irradiated diet was stopped, the proportion of

polyploid cells returned to the control level within a maximum of 6

weeks. If the diet was stored (initially) for 6 weeks following

irradiation before being fed to the animals no increase in the number of

polyploid cells was noted. These results are not interpreted as a

mutagenic effect of the irradiated diet. PMID: 929628 [PubMed - indexed

for MEDLINE]

4) Irradiated laboratory animal diets: dominant lethal studies in the

mouse.

Mutat Res 1981 Feb;80(2):333-45

D, Clapp MJ, Hodge MC, Weight TM.

In 4 separate dominant lethal experiments groups of mice of either

River CD1 or Alderley Park strains were fed laboratory diets

(Oakes, 41B, PRD, BP nutrition rat and mouse maintenance diet No. 1).

The diets were either untreated (negative control diets) or irradiated

at 1, 2.5 and 5 megarad and were freshly irradiated, or stored. The

animals were fed their test diets for a period of 3 weeks prior to

mating. Groups of mice given a single intraperitoneal injection of 200

mg cyclophosphamide per kg body weight served as the positive controls.

Freshly irradiated PRD diet fed to male mice of both strains caused an

increase in early deaths in females mated to the males in week 7 and to

a lesser extent in week 4. The increase due to irradiation was small by

comparison with that produced by the positive control compound. The

responses for the other irradiated diets showed no significant increases

in early deaths although some values for Oakes diet were high. The

effect of storage was examined with PRD and BPN diet on one occasion and

produced conflicting results. Thus there was some evidence that

irradiated PRD diet has weak mutagenic activity in the meiotic and/or

pre-meiotic phase of the spermatogenic cycle which appeared to be

lessened on storage; the inclusion of such a diet in toxicological

studies would therefore need to be carefully considered. PMID: 7207489

[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

5) The effect of ionizing irradiation on sensory changes in feed in

relation to their utilization by dogs

Vet Med (Praha) 1985 Dec;30(12):739-48, [Article in Czech]

Smid K, Dvorak J, Hrusovsky J.

To evaluate the effect of ionizing radiation on sensory changes of feeds

in relation to their utilization by dogs, four groups of experimental

animals were formed. Two groups were fed a ration where the main

component (meat feed mixture VETACAN and loose feed mixture VETAVIT) was

irradiated by radioisotope Co 60 at the dose of 25 kGy/kg for the period

of 90 days. In the remaining two groups a non-irradiated ration was used

for the same period. For both diets, control groups of dogs were formed

and the feed ration was biologically fortified by a vitamin-mineral

supplement to the physiological standard. It followed from the

observations that the effect of radiation caused a significant

qualitative decrease in the level of energy nutrients, particularly in

the protein and lipid sphere. It is assumed that the extent of damage of

lipid fraction is also accompanied by deficient vitamin activity and

further by significant changes of taste and aromatic properties felt by

animals. Irradiation of the feed ration caused a significant 20 to 25%

decrease of food intake with a subsequent decrease of live weight and

deterioration of physical condition. Irradiated diets without biological

fortification caused significant losses of weight from the initial value

mean = 39.5 kg to mean = 35.33 kg, in comparison with the non-irradiated

rations through which the live weight was stabilized, and at biological

fortification positively influenced. Irradiation of the feed ration

during the period of study had not caused a response of the organism

displayed in changes of physiological values of body temperature and

heart and respiration rates in experimental animals. Radiosterilization

of feeds had not caused any significant decrease of training ability and

performance of dogs. PMID: 3937317 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

6) Immune response in rats given irradiated wheat.

Br J Nutr 1978 Nov;40(3):535-41

Vijayalaxmi.

1. Rats given diets containing freshly-irradiated wheat showed

significantly lower mean antibody titres to four different antigens,

decreased numbers of antibody-forming cells in the spleen and

rosette-forming lymphocytes as compared to rats given either

unirradiated wheat or irradiated wheat stored for a period of 12 weeks.

2. The immune response in rats given 90 g protein/kg diet was

essentially similar to that seen in animals given 180 g protein/kg diet.

PMID: 568934 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

[Guest guest]

I don't even know what to say anymore.

Things like this are just so beyond ridiculous.

I am overwhelmed with the unthinkable atrocities going on in this world

nowadays.

I am now trying to just ignore all the nonsense, and focus on what is good and

positive.

[Guest guest]

hmmm ....... if the FDA doesn't raise enough money with the additional fees from

the globilization act because they have put small companies out of business.,

that means they still won't be able to inspect the meat packing plants the way

they should. Now, they're OK with radiating veggies. If you don't die from

eating meat; you may die from eating vegetables.Seems like they' re gonna get us

one way or another.

[Guest guest]

Amen!!

Josh McGrath <caretstick@...> wrote: I don't even know what to

say anymore.

Things like this are just so beyond ridiculous.

I am overwhelmed with the unthinkable atrocities going on in this world

nowadays.

I am now trying to just ignore all the nonsense, and focus on what is good and

positive.

-Janet

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