X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (CM.0402.7.09) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I agree with Jean-Claude on this one. Additionally, there is the issue of= irradiating foods. In the = book Fast Food Nation, the author makes a pretty compelling case that the= only reason for = creating the technology to irradiate foods and thereby make them safe for= human consumption, = is because the speeds at which the cattle are slaughtered in the meatpack= ing plants is so fast = that the employees can rarely disembowel the animals properly before havi= ng to move on to the = next animal. The result is that contaminated fecal matter infects that animal and ever= y other animal that = goes through that station afterwards. Irradiation appears to be a step th= at the meat packers = want to add so that they can justify doing an even sloppier job on the ki= lling floor than they = already do with meat that isn't healthy to begin with. Not good for the animals. Not good for the workers and DEFINITELY not goo= d for consumers. Mike = ____________________________________________________________________ =