Re: Nuclear device for the kitchen, yes really

John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:59:09 -0700, Jim Thompson
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It's already being done here in the U.S., at least for military meals.
Seal in plastic, then irradiate.

I don't know what type of radiation is being used.

Of course it's being resisted for use in public consumption by the
loonie greenies, but it's certainly the correct answer for food
preservation AND stopping food-borne illness.

I sometimes think there should be a bounty offered for loonie
greenies, after all they ARE a terrorist group ;-)

...Jim Thompson 



In the US, spices are commonly zapped to kill bugs, and some other
foods, I think. They use either gammas from an radioisotope source, or
electrons from an accelerator. Google 'food irradiation' or something.

Zapping chicken and certain seafoods would probably save a thousand
lives for every cancer produced.


Just to speculate on this in the other direction...  (As in "you are what you eat")

Like they said in England - Mad cow desease can't jump the species barrier - it did.

Those gamma rays etc modify the DNA in uncooked potatoes so that they don't sprout.
The modified DNA gets taken up when it's consumed and gives evolution a boost...

Farfetched ?  maybe.


Thanks to the soothing talk of the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) - actually a body representing the farmers/industry - but not the interests of the consumers, you (The US that is) are sending specimins to the UK to determine if your cows have Mad Cow disease aka BSE (Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy) - as we have become the experts.
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