Radioactive Reasoning

In an essay for the the American Council on Science and Health, Rutgers University food scientist Joseph D. Rosen, who "likes his meat rare and his science well done," ably dissects a recent Consumer Reports article that attacks irradiated meat for no good reason. As I noted in my article on the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Reason's July issue, this weird resistance to a process that indisputably makes food safer is hard to understand except as the expression of a desire to punish people for eating animal products.