WASHINGTON – The government will allow food producers to start zapping fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and other dangerous germs, a key safety move amid increasing outbreaks from raw produce.
Although radiation is necessary in certain circumstances — twenty five years ago in chiropractic college we learned that all forms and all levels of radiation have a detrimental effect. It has been shown to alter genetic information. All food we eat has genetic information. Will we have a choice as consumers for non-radiated food. I am sure there are safer ways to protect our food sources than radiation.
Maybe it won’t show in our generation, or our children, or their children, but altering genes in our food supply is bound to come back to haunt us.
This fits right in with the government mandating that our mattresses be coated in flame-retardant chemical. Well, myself and family are non-smokers — I should be able to buy a chemical free bed (non-smoker’s version).
The government in their wisdom of trying to protect us, is exposing us to lethal agents. What next — chemicals on diapers, so babies don’t get those nasty rashes — maybe mandate, everyone gets sprayed with Lysol before entering a grocery store.
Maybe the government should mandate, exercise, good diet and of course chiropractic cranial.