Botulism Blog - Irradiating Won't Eliminate The Botulism, But Will Get the Vitamin A! - Comments http://www.botulismblog.com/ Food Poisoning Lawyer & Attorney : Bill Marler : Marler Clark en Copyright 2011 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:44:27 -0800 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:44:27 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Rebecca T. of HonestMeat Just like pasteurization, where you still end up with poop and puss in the final product, albeit denatured, irradiating produce is just another bandaid approach to food safety. Turning our farms into sterile war zones is not the correct solution either. How about looking at the source, which is stuffing grain down the gullets of grazing animals whose digestive systems are not made for diet of grain and food waste? Why is all the work being placed on the back of the produce industry while the feedlot & dairy industry get off scot free?
Our food is already getting lower and lower in vitamins and minerals, thanks to conventional farming techniques (this has been scientifically proven). Do we really want to zap even more nutrition out of it to the point where we will all have to consume daily vitamin pills?

]]> http://www.botulismblog.com/botulism-watch/irradiating-wont-eliminate-the-botulism-but-will-get-the-vitamin-a/#15008 http://www.botulismblog.com/botulism-watch/irradiating-wont-eliminate-the-botulism-but-will-get-the-vitamin-a/#15008 Botulism Watch Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:49:18 -0800 bmarler@marlerclark.com (Botulism Attorney) matt Whenever I discuss my distaste for irradated produce, most people seem to think I'm afraid of the lingering radiation.

It's not the radiation that scares me; it's exactly what Bill Freese describes - the "disincentive" to clean up the act that made these systems look attractive to begin with.

The tail is wagging the dog.

]]> http://www.botulismblog.com/botulism-watch/irradiating-wont-eliminate-the-botulism-but-will-get-the-vitamin-a/#15009 http://www.botulismblog.com/botulism-watch/irradiating-wont-eliminate-the-botulism-but-will-get-the-vitamin-a/#15009 Botulism Watch Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:49:18 -0800 bmarler@marlerclark.com (Botulism Attorney) Simmon Hofstetter I loved the part of this post where C. botulinum spores were discussed as being resistant to irradiation...oh, wait, there was NO discussion with reference to the title of the post. The title is irrelevant. Please write on-topic, lest the readers adopt inaccurate notions. The blog is good- I don't want to see it spiral into a chasm of practice that disseminates skewed information.

@Rebecca T. of HonestMeat- bacterial spores are ubiquitous within soil. These forms of bacteria inevitably come into contact with food, regardless of what we're feeding our cattle (I agree with you, however, that reforms need to be made across the pork, poultry, and beef industries. By and large it is an unsustainable industry under current land-use, feedstock distribution, and slaughter management practices).

]]> http://www.botulismblog.com/botulism-watch/irradiating-wont-eliminate-the-botulism-but-will-get-the-vitamin-a/#15010 http://www.botulismblog.com/botulism-watch/irradiating-wont-eliminate-the-botulism-but-will-get-the-vitamin-a/#15010 Botulism Watch Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:49:18 -0800 bmarler@marlerclark.com (Botulism Attorney)