Reply #4: Sorry, I can't help you. [View All]

[megatherium]

The claims in this letter are over the top: "Problems include, but are not limited to, premature death, fatal internal bleeding, prenatal death, suppressed immune systems, tumors, stunted growth and nutritional deficiencies." The seafood will not be radioactive. Any chemical changes that would occur would be similar to and no greater than the witch's brew of chemical changes that ordinary cooking (with heat) causes.

There are already products on the shelf that everyone uses that have been irradiated. You ever wonder why those little bottles of dried spices keep so well? They're irradiated.

The danger to health of bacteria-contaminated products are real, and far greater than the alleged dangers due to irradiation. People die from contaminated food.

Having said that, I should also add that I support labeling of food irradiation (it isn't now). I also support any effort to reform the meat industry, with its unhealthy and inhumane treatment of animals. But I don't belong to the fear-nuclear religion that is so popular on the left.