Hot Lunches?

Irradiated meat will finally make its way onto public school menus, the USDA announced today. The usual clutch of alarmists say the nuked food puts kids at risk, despite scant evidence for that view.

Bottomline, lunch-line mystery meat has always been deadly. Now that the meat is glowing at least it can't sneak up on you.

Comments

[Anonymous]

"the meat is glowing"?

ronald bailey would like to have a word with you, young man.

[Madog]

Irradiated meat is probably healthier for the kids, since it kills bacteria and whatnot.

Of course, now we'll probably have people saying that because kids aren't exposed to bacteria growing up, they're not as strong as past generations.

Thruth be told, I always liked the Spacers in Asimov's novels better than the people left on Earth, even if they were a bit odd.

[Anonymous]

Dude, you're a smart guy. And you ought to be contacting the USDA about this. (Better yet, forget about USDA. Write the people that purvey the meat.)

[s.m. koppelman]

Let me see if I have this right:

• Some segment of the population is suspicious of irradiated meat out of a fear of the unknown.
• Irradiated meat isn't changed in any heretofore detected way; it's just meat. Taylor can thus chuckle at the superstitious rubes.
• Jeff Taylor is suspicious of meat from animals he doesn't encounter in his local supermarket out of a fear of the unknown.
• Meat from badgers and civets isn't quantifiably different from the goat and rabbit meat in his local butcher's freezer case; it's just meat. Taylor, however, is not a superstitious rube.

[scott]

I am a superstitious rube, and I would like some unicorn meat to increase my sexual power...

[erf]

Reason bloggers can be so damn smarmy.

[Kevin Carson]

Actually, the main problem I've read about is the radiolytic byproducts in irradiated meat, resulting from breakdown of complex molecules.

But what strikes me is that corporate agribusiness has turned to the State to obtain a captive market for something that uncoerced consumers are ambivalent about. We can add the agribusiness-free lunch complex to the long list of politically connected industries with markets guaranteed by the State.

[david f]

hey ERF, damn straight 🙂 and happy friday to you!

just think of the final scenes from Dr. Strangelove. that puts this story into perspective.

or maybe the woodie (sic) allen "casino royale" with the pill that "looks like asprin, tastes like asprin, but..."

so we have meat that looks like meat, tastes like meat...

carnivorously,
drf

[Paladin]

Is there any evidence at all that irradiated food is harmful? I've heard a lot of conjecture but never seen any actual studies. Have any been done?

[dude]

I think it all has to do with the word "irradiated." You'd think some marketing type could come up with a different term, like when rapeseed oil became canola oil.

But irradiated = radiation = nuclear power = your kids will be growing a second head, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, etc.

[Anonymous]

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

[irradiated]

There is a ephemisim for irradiation -- "cold pasturization". Totally bogus, of course. The processes are nothing like each other.

The main reason to oppose irradiation is that food producers use it as a stand-in for other safety measures. Let the meet fill up with fecal matter and byproducts, then just zap it and it's safe to eat. But you're still eating shit. Check Fast Food Nation on this point.

[irritated]

What's the point in "other safety measures." if the "meet" processors, food-handlers, drive-thru clerks, and sandwich makers DON'T EVER WASH THEIR HANDS, hmmm?

They go to the bathroom, wipe their anus (with silk) and then come back to "Let the 'meet' fill up with fecal matter ..." anyway.

Bon apetite.

[Anonymous]

Hey, hey, HEY! Let's not talk Politics of Poop.

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