Food Agency Tries To Quell Fears About Glow-In-The-Dark Meats

Associated Press ^ | November 16, 2005

[kingattax]

SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian food agency is trying to quell fears about glow-in-the-dark meats.

In a statement released Wednesday, the New South Wales state Food Authority said the glowing phenomenon is caused by a harmless light-emitting bacteria that is naturally present in most meats and fish.

"While most of us would understandably be shocked to see our food glowing, it is important to remember that the microorganism responsible for the glow is not known to cause food poisoning," the authority's director general, George Davey, said in the statement.

The Food Authority receives around two phone calls each month from nervous consumers who have discovered glowing meats in their iceboxes. It issued the statement to allay fears about possible radioactivity in Australia's meat supply.

"There has been some speculation in the media that glowing food might have been irradiated, and I can assure consumers that this is definitely not the case," Davey said

[RandallFlagg]

Why do I remember someone on my ship describing a scene from an old John Ritter movie???

[Hegemony Cricket]

Great for those midnight snacks...

[kingattax]

"Skin Deep" (1989) ..very funny movie !

[Yo-Yo]

If there is a glow to the meat, you must not eat!

[Malsua]

There has been some speculation in the media that glowing food might have been irradiated, and I can assure consumers that this is definitely not the case," Davey said

Funny, if it had been Irridiated, it wouldn't glow at all. What a bunch of idiots.

[martin_fierro]

An Australian food agency is trying to quell fears about glow-in-the-dark meats.

Well, I have been trying to eat light.

[kingattax]

lol

[day10]

This has potential and I need laughs.....

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Hey, we are used to glowing things in NJ. I am totally not phased by this one bit!!!

[PaulaB]

Food Authority receives around two phone calls each month from nervous consumers who have discovered glowing meats in their iceboxes

Sorry I am part of the anti glow meat movement

[EX52D]

Glow in the dark meats? There is a vile joke in there somewhere...

[Lady Jag]

Kids like the green ones best!

[teenyelliott]

Doesn't Trojan make something to achieve that?

[day10]

Not phased at all?????

[EX52D]

LOL...I would die of laughter! Talk about a mood spoiler!

[day10]

I can't bring myself to post any of the images that came up on a Google image search.

[pissant]

Biker Chick even eats fish from the Passaic river. They feed on dead gangsters. ;o)

[Millee]

[PaulaB]

Same here...


I would be laughing so hard

the mood would be non existent