Re: Nuclear device for the kitchen, yes really

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:29:28 GMT, richard mullens
<mullensdeletethis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>John Larkin wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:59:09 -0700, Jim Thompson
><snip>
>>>
>>>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...
>

Uh, how would taking up the modified DNA be any different from taking
up the unmodified DNA? Either way it won't turn you into a giant
potato or something since it gets dissolved in the digestive juices.

- YD.

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