[muawiyah]

Fellow I know with half a dozen doctorates in all of this sort of thing said, more or less, the way to save a Quad of energy is to just irradiate all the meat we sell in this country. The stores can turn off their freezers and refrigerated counters used for just meat products ~ and put the cuts and parts out on the shelves.

He said it will have absolutely no effect on home refrigeration at all.

"They" (the folks he was working for at the time) computed in visits to the hospital related to consumption of tainted meat ~ which is not an inconsiderable cost.

[rlmorel]

I am all for irradiation of food. Completely. It is one hell of a lot cheaper and more effective than carting and storing stuff in fridges everywhere.

Yeah, I know about free radicals. I was a nuclear medicine tech for fifteen years...

We have people who put the risk from free radicals in food so far above the threat of food-borne illnesses because WE TAKE REFRIGERATION SO DAMNED FOR GRANTED!

Grr.