I’m reprinting the following letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal with permission of the author, Joe Mendelson, Legal Director of The Center for Food Safety, Washington.
The Journal supposes that any interest group opposed to food irradiation “presumably thinks you can hire enough inspectors to look at every tomato.” This is not the case.
Dispatching an army of inspectors would present no more of a solution than irradiation, because neither tactic attacks the root cause of the problem: E. coli contamination from manure generated by large-scale industrial cattle operations.
The proximity of many cattle operations to farms opens the door for continued contamination. These concentrated operations produce huge volumes of manure that leaches into nearby waterways and spreads bacteria to crops through the irrigation systems.
The FDA prefers to turn a blind eye and, instead, suggests quick fixes like irradiation, which has been proven to lower the nutritional value of the subjected foods by diminishing important vitamins.
When we allow our food to be irradiated rather than demand real solutions, we accept a broken and dangerous system, and encourage the FDA to maintain its negligent status quo. We deserve better.
Joe Mendelson
Legal Director
The Center for Food Safety
Washington
My doctor says I can get all the vitamins and minerals I need from my food. What is your opinion on this?
I used to say the same thing to my patients, back in the days before I studied healthy alternatives. It is the party line of allopathic medicine, although that is starting to change. Here's the bottom line, and I'll follow up with some info on what allopaths are now doing:
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