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From: billw@Navajo.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: nasty food ingredients
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 04:59:22 EDT
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> to hear from some of you natural food types just how you expect to feed
> 8 million people in New York City (as an example) tons upon tons of food
> everyday without using chemical preservatives.  As a start, don't even
> bother trying to tell me about natural preservatives that will keep foods
> fresh for 2 weeks -- you need to be able to preserve a lot of foods for
> a minimum of 6 months.  I'd be interested to see if there has been any
> research done on replacing existing chemical preservatives (BHA, BHT,
> whatever) with more natural substitutes.
> 
Well, I don't beleive nearly any of the natural food hype, but by
irradiating food with a nice gamma ray source, you can preserve
it for months without adding ANYTHING at all to it chemically.

Try to get the public to swallow THAT though.

BillW  "Radiation is natural"