Until the last decade of the 19th century, for example, we had no electric lights. In the last decade of the 20th, an average of more than 200 people were electrocuted in the United States each year from household electrical devices such as lamps, switches, TVs, radios, washers, dryers and so on, with another 300 killed in some 40,000 electrical fires. We deplore and yet accept these consequences of having electricity in our homes because the benefits so vastly outweigh the risks. After carefully analyzing the arguments of people with all points of view, I believe that the benefits of food irradiation vastly outweigh the risks. Irradiation may be used to mask low-quality food.
Irradiation promotes carelessness and discourages the efforts to produce clean food.
Irradiation destroys the healthful bacteria in food. Irradiation significantly lowers the nutritive value of food. Sorry, but I fooled you. My thanks to Morton Satin, chief of agro-industries at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome for sending them. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.