I must agree with Craig about the purpose and rationale behind
irradiation.
> > What is interesting to me is the vitriolic response of the sustainable
> > ag folks. It is almost like this is (along with pesticides and maybe
> > GMO's) a sort of litmus test. Like you can't be an authentic
> > sustainable ag person if you accept it. I think that there is a
> > political root to all of this.
> It seems very straight-forward to me. Nothing about food irradiation
> fits into the lexicon of sustainable anything. No serious sustainable
> ag person can support this "solution".
It's very indicative of a food system gone awry -- use of
antibiotics in feed to hasten weight gain, confinement rearing of
cattle, concentration of processing in the hands of a few giant
corporations, cattle regarded as units of production only, cattle fed
parts of their own offal -- very much a techno-fix for a
techno-created problem -- very much the medical model of making the
symptom disappear, and leaving the cause unchecked.
Linda Littrell
Linda Littrell
Applied Economoics
University of Minnesota
612/625-1762
llittrel@dept.agecon.umn.edu
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