The FDA Vs PhytoNutrients & A Healthy Food Supply
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Today I read about the FDA allowing food companies to irradiate certain foods ( Lettuce & Spinach initially) without any requirement whatsoever to let the public in on this. The FDA is also looking to expand this to other vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers and onions. Soon, ALL vegetables may be irradiated.
Why should you care?
Well the process of irradiating our food destroys phytonutrients as well as other anti-cancer nutrients in fresh vegetables that protect our health. Fresh vegetables also provide beneficial enzymes that protect our health and I’m sure will also be destroyed by the process of irradiation.
This is just outrageous. The FDA is allowing our food supply to be destroyed. Some years from now everyone will wonder why the incidence of life-threatening disease has skyrocketed. This is a criminal act and should be severly punished as such.
I personally take supplemental enzymes and probiotics in an effort to protect my health as I know that the way our food supply stands already it is lacking much of the benefits it is supposed to have for our bodies due to the manner of processing it.
When will this madness end? Something has to be done to stop this!
Think of it in this way…If Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist cronies were planning to try something like this, the country and the world would be in an uproar. However, the FDA which apparently reports to no one is doing this with no recourse for the US population. Must be nice to operate without any regard for the law or fear of punishment.
Undoubtedly the health of the US population will suffer drastically in the long term because of the FDAs decision to allow irradiation of our food supply. I used to think that eating raw vegetables was a good, healthy idea…now I have to rethink that. The FDA will be happy because their main supporters, the big pharmaceutical companies will prosper even more by a sickened US population.
We as a people must fight back or be relegated to a life of sickness and suffering.
Here are some suggestions of what the simple American can do to fight back;
1. If possible, grow some of your own food, especially vegetables
2. Shop at Farmer’s markets or where you know the produce is grown organically ( Sometimes this is more expensive, but as Jordan Rubin says ” You either pay the farmer now or you pay the doctor later”)
3. Wherever you buy your produce ask if it has been irradiated. They should be able to tell you and if not, ask them to find out, or shop elsewhere.
4. Contact your Senators and Congresspeople, insisting that they pass new laws protecting consumers from the FDA and its nonchalance about destroying the nutritional value of the US food supply.
To Your Health,
Chris
