Xref: utzoo sci.chem:1134 sci.environment:5790 sci.physics:12389 sci.bio:2871 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!dali!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: sci.chem,sci.environment,sci.physics,sci.bio Subject: Re: Irradiated Food Ban Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 90 20:56:32 GMT References: <1990Apr03.175424.24591@pmafire.UUCP> <1990Apr03.211740.27070@pmafire.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Followup-To: sci.chem,sci.environment Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 28 In-reply-to: dlbres10@pc.usl.edu's message of 4 Apr 90 15:35:14 GMT In article dlbres10@pc.usl.edu (Fraering Philip) writes: Misconception #1: [a free market] The only way that irradiated food could be forced on them is if all of the non-irradiated food is pulled from the shelves, which is probrably not likely to happen. In the absence of labeling laws (which you go on to endorse), we have fraud, rather than a free market. For example, if the spices you put on your food are not explicitly NOT irradiated, they probably are irradiated. Misconception #2: ... no labels on pesticide-free food saying that "Out of your squirmishness about chemicals we let the bugs eat part of the crop even in a world where people are suffering from lack of food. We have the food to feed everyone a sufficient number of calories to keep them healthy, even if we let the bugs eat part of the crop. When people starve, it is because of political problems, e.g. Ethiopian aid rotted on the docks while the soldiers kept it from the starving people. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems Clarkson will be featured on PBS's Computer Chronicles this week.