Guest guest Posted March 11, 2002 Report Share Posted March 11, 2002 - Sunday, March 10, 2002 12:41 PM Irradiation: postal and otherwise Dear Subscribers! My post a few days ago about postal irradiation generated a flood of mail. The scoop, from what I have heard, is that the post office has leased irradiation facilities and contracted to obtain its own equipment. All mail sent from Brentwood and Trenton (NJ) is being irradiated and all mail addressed to certain zip codes in the D. C. area is irradiated with 100 million times more radiation than is necessary to sterilize devices implanted in the body. Because of the extremely high level of irradiation, the impact on certain materials will be significant. For instance, samples sent through the mail for laboratory analysis would be worthless. Items containing plastics would outgas and deteriorate, including film. Drugs and medicines " could be affected, " and electronic devices would not function. Obviously, this makes life safer for postal employees and intended recipients of contaminated mail; however, it is not safe for herbal shipments, not to mention homeopathic ones. As someone explained to me once, " if it won't compost, it won't digest. " We depend on a certain amount of biological activity to assimilate and utilize the food and herbs we ingest. Ever since I first looked into microwave ovens, I have opposed their use because foods cooked in them will not compost. I can't tell you how many emails I get from frantic parents of babies with colic and distress in their gastrointestinal systems so I believe formulas cooked in microwave ovens challenge the digestive apparatus of infants and adults. I have referred people to a reprint of an article on another of my sites: http://www.cancersalves.com/articles/Microwave.html This is my oldest and largest site (of the 12 I operate) and the article has been there for years. On kitchendoctor. com, it has been my intent for some time to explain why irradiated spices should not be used. These are irradiated with only 35,000 times the amount of radioactivity permitted in a chest x-ray, i. e., much less than what the postal service is using. Obviously, these kinds of spices are dried out irritants that aggravate gallbladder trouble. However, a delicious, aromatic non-irradiated spice stimulates the secretion of gastric juices, aids digestion and elimination . . . and such spices are often antimicrobial, disinfecting, and carminative (reduce gas and abdominal noises.) We carry all these spices but what you see on the site doesn't make this obvious. Please feel free to nudge me to get these items into the online store. In the meantime, I urge everyone who might be impacted by the postal measures to look carefully at what would constitute an effective way to assure that your dietary and medical needs are met. I perhaps should point out that while mail is the newest victim of irradiation, food that is irradiated is not necessarily labeled as such. This includes many meat products, fruit and vegetables, and some potatoes (which are then less likely to grow.) We are doing the best we can to tiptoe around the hazards . . . and I am doing the best I can to gag myself from blurting out the obvious: if we wanted to eliminate bioterrorism, we could shut down our own laboratories and put similar pressure on Russia and Japan to do the same. That would leave Iraq and a concerted international effort to eliminate the risks of misuse of biological weapons would end the problems once and for all. Personally, I am unable to be moderate when thinking of disease as an instrument of war. The complete capriciousness and inhumanity does something to my blood for which I have no remedy! Take care! Ingrid To or , go to http://www.kitchendoctor.com/.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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