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Dead Food - Irradiation of Fruits and Vegetables

There's a new program to sterilize the food and destroy the nutritional value of fresh produce (unfortunately most fresh produce is not fit to eat but it still has some nutritional value). The people in this program are the usual government agencies and chemical companies that have corporate America in mind, not your good health: the USDA (which backed the "raw" almond sterilization rules now in effect in California) and the American Chemical Society - an association that represents the interests of industrial chemical and food manufacturers. The latest "how can we hurt the people and help the bottom line of corporate America" is from USDA researchers who conducted a study to see which method more effectively killed bacteria on leafy green vegetables like spinach, lettuce, etc.

To conduct the study, they covered the spinach in a solution of bacteria. They then tried to remove the bacteria using three methods: washing, chemical spraying and irradiation. Are we surprised that the irradiation killed almost 100 percent of the bacterial colonies? Irradiation destroys virtually all bacteria and the plants, which destroys the nutritional value.

The USDA says that this is a big success. By using radiation on food (they are using it on meat as we write) the USDA says the number of food-borne illnesses each year will be substantially lowered. It makes no sense until you figure out that by destroying all of the nutritional value of all fresh fruits and vegetables sold in the United States or any other place they can find (probably Canada and Mexico at the least) you will make people ill which generates money for medicine and drug companies. This is not for preventing ill health but to extend the shelf life of produce. Unfortunately, an irradiation program would increase the number of people killed because dead food does not prevent infections and chronic diseases whereas healthy food does prevent disease and promotes good health.

For those of you who don't know, irradiation is being used on meats. Pork, chicken and beef are bring pumped up with a solution of water, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, and salt into meat to make the consumer think the product tastes better than it really does (animals grown in confinement under torturous conditions don't taste like naturally grown animals). One nation chicken chain is advertising that their chicken is juicy (of course they hope you never find out why it is juicy).

Irradiation is particularly used on beef because as they pump it up they inadvertently push E-coli (from sloppy slaughtering) into the meat.

One question that comes up, and I am not sure how to answer this: is there a conspiracy to destroy all nutrients and healthful foods so that chemical corporations, industrial food manufacturers, drug corporations and medicine can make money off our poor health, or are they all just doing their thing of making profits which happens to destroy our health?

Whatever the reason for the destruction of food, the best way to combat this is an informed public that can complain and protest to the powers that control our food supply. The only way to get better food is to buy locally when possible and boycott large food corporations (and don't fall for their spin) as much as possible.

Europe got rid of Genetically Modified foods in their food supply by avoiding food from companies that used these unhealthy grains. When large corporations realized that their sales were going down they switched to non GMO foods. The first corporation to switch was Unilever and the second was Mc Donald's. This was involved with GMO products but the irradiation issue can be handled the same way here in North America.

A recent victory here in the states is that Star Bucks has agreed to not use any milk products coming from cows that have been injected with Bovine Growth Hormones, which is a genetically engineered product.

I am not the only person reporting about poor food causing poor health. We need to get interested in our futures. Everyone is busy and we don't want to think that the "government" would let corporations poison or destroy our health, but the truth is that corporations control all parts of our lives. They do this by contributing to politicians' campaigns and in return the politicians vote the way they are told to help the corporation involved.

I suggest you read everything you can get your hands on. Take what I report and expand on it. Talk with your friends and family, but don't stop when uninformed people are not interested or don't want to believe you.

Jeffery Smith, author of "Seeds of Deception" (about genetic engineered foods) believes that all we need to change the food supply is 15,000,000 people out of 300,000,000 to be informed and complaining to corporations that they will take their business elsewhere and we will see improvements in our food supply.

I agree, so let's talk to every ear we can find. An informed public will become a healthier public.

To Your Good Health

Dr Bob the Health Builder

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