Re: Nuclear device for the kitchen, yes really

Don Klipstein wrote: 
In article <aqHte.8849$U4.1200966@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Terry Given wrote:

Rich Grise wrote: 


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It doesn't taste any different than it would have tasted fresh
just before it went into the irradiation machine. The radiation doesn't alter the food in any way, except that the bacteria are
dead. Cooking also kills bacteria, but it changes the structure
of the food. Gamma radiation doesn't do that, it merely sterilizes
it. Admittedly, a raw chicken breast in a plastic bag can look
kind of gross just lying there limp; but you could store them
in the kitchen cabinet with the soup, and when you opened the
bag and the breast slid out it'd be just like you just got
it fresh at the meat market.

Hope This Helps!
Rich


Heres an interesting analytical technique: 5-why. Ask why 5 times. Specifically, ask why gamma radiation kills the bacteria (read as: biological material). Then ask why it has *no* effect on the rest of the biological material.


OK, actual percentage of molecules damaged is not quite zero, just some small fraction damaged slightly. Fatal to living things, hardly anything to anything already dead. Irradiate live chicken cells to the extent of causing damage comparable to 1/20 of the difference between chicken and turkey and what happens - sure looks to me like you get over 99% chicken and the other 1% more like chicken than like turkey, let alone any significant presence of anything that does not taste like or digest as poultry!

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)

nice. Now I ask if the damaged dead flesh is OK to eat. How has it been damaged, and what are the likely ramifications of that damage.

It doesnt need to be transmuted into turkey to be bad for you. Nor do I say that it is. Only that the process affects the food, therefore it behooves those planning on implementing it to prove that the effects are harmless. Preferrably with something other than blatant assertion.

Cheers
Terry
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