I just heard fruit and vegetables are being put trough radiation to kill off ecoli? In USA is this true?

Question

If so won't this kill off everything???

Like all the nunutrients need?

Answer 1

Yes, it will kill off everything.  The food will be "dead" food.  It will be cooked without looking cooked.  They are using every excuse in the book to try to promote this radiating of food.  They will keep doing this over and over and over and never stop until they can freely radiate every food.  It's how they do everything, step by step, little by little and nobody complains until it's too late. It's all about $$$$ money money money.  They want to be able to sell fruits and vegetables in the same way they sell packaged foods... that is, sitting on the shelf for as long as possible.

Answer 2

Lettuce and Spinach (ONLY lettuce and spinach) are now allowed (by the FDA) to be irradiated without having to be labeled as irradiated. It's quite possible that they may adopt the same policy for other fruits and vegetables in the near future. Yes, the irradiation process does kill all the good phytonutrients in the vegetables, so if I were you, I would make sure not to buy irradiated vegetables. Organic standards prohibit irradiation, so if you buy organic, you're safe. If you don't buy organic, ask the grocery store if it's irradiated. This is a ridiculous policy, by the way. If only they would crack down on all the foodborne illnesses caused by meat consumption... It's so much worse than vegetables

Answer 3

Radiation is a great way to kill off bacteria lurking in vegetables - especially leafy vegetables with lots of surface area - without doing any harm at all to the nutritional value.

Ignorant people associate radiation with nuclear bombs and can't make the distinction. Thus the paranoia about radiation. There is no residual radiation in irradiated foods and radiation has been used in some foods - especially spices - for decades without ill effects.

Answer 4

I'd play it safe and buy organic. :D

Answer 5

do not worry about the nutrients. Radiation makes it so much easier to find the produce in the dark.

Answer 6

Yes, they announced today that they are going to start to irradiate spinach and lettuce because of past e coli outbreaks in the United States.

One problem that I have with this is that none are still sure of the source country where the foods came from that supposedly were infected.  Just like the recent scare and taking off the market tomatoes and jalapenos - then finding out that there was no problem with the tomatoes - the jalapeno found infected was only one actual pepper (which I found rather strange) and it wasn't even from a crop in the United States (which was quickly hushed).

I have heard some claim that it doesn't harm any of the nutritional value of the food - have heard the opposite as well.  Using just basic logic - I don't see how any could suggest that putting a perishable food thru such a process wouldn't have some sort of effect upon the food. Radiation forms a heat - heat kills certain vitamins within foods - which is why many prefer eating things raw or a lite steam.

So - I am going to be cautious - switch foods around - eat other things - and do some study on the topic.

Answer 7

Produce in the US was already subjected to radiation.

If you wish to avoid this, buy organic.

To see if radiation actually kills anything, try this test:

Buy a variety of vegetables from both conventional and organic sources.

It will quickly become obvious that organic produce keeps growing,  (carrots grow roots, corn grows stalks) and conventional does not.  

Radiation harms nothing?  It destroys the enzymes in your food necessary for digestion.  I consider that to be harm.

Answer 8

They're not put in a trough, but they are being irradiated, after people got sick with e.coli from fresh foods.

I really don't want to go to the hospital, because of tomatoes, or lettuce.

Maybe if Europe doesn't want our produce, we can save pennies for gas.