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Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
www.NaturalNews.com

There's a new plot underway to sterilize your food
and destroy the nutritional value of fresh produce.
The players in this plot are the usual suspects: The
USDA (which backed the "raw" almond sterilization
rules now in effect in California) and the American
Chemical Society -- a pro-chemical group that
represents the interests of industrial chemical
manufacturers. The latest push comes from USDA
researchers who conducted a study to see which
method more effectively killed bacteria on leafy
green vegetables like spinach.

To conduct the study, they bathed the spinach in
a solution contaminated with bacteria. Then, they
tried to remove the bacteria using three methods:
Washing, chemical spraying and irradiation. Not
surprisingly, only the irradiation killed nearly 100
percent of the bacterial colonies. That's because
radiation sterilizes both the bacteria and the
vegetable leaves, effectively killing the plant
and destroying much of its nutritional value
while it kills the bacteria.

The USDA claims this is a huge success. By using
radiation on all fresh produce, they claim, the
number of food-borne illness outbreaks that happen
each year could be substantially reduced. It all
makes sense until you realize that by destroying
the nutritional value of all fresh produce sold in
the United States, an irradiation policy would
greatly increase the number of people killed by
infections and chronic diseases that are prevented
by the natural medicines found in fresh produce!

Why fresh, living produce helps prevent sickness
The USDA, you see, has zero recognition of the
difference between living produce and dead produce.
To uneducated government bureaucrats, pasteurized
or irradiated vegetable juice is identical to fresh,
raw, living vegetable juice. They believe this because
they've never been taught about the phytonutrients,
digestive enzymes and life force properties that
are found in fresh foods, but that are destroyed
through heat or irradiation. This, the USDA is
operating out of extreme ignorance when it comes
to food and nutrition.

Even a simple leaf of spinach contains hundreds of
natural medicines -- phytonutrients that help prevent
cancer, eye diseases, nervous system disorders,
heart disease and much more. Every living vegetable
is a powerhouse of disease-fighting medicine:
Broccoli prevents cancer, beet greens cleanse the liver,
cilantro removes heavy metals, celery prevents
cancer, berries prevent heart disease and dark
leafy greens help prevent over a dozen serious
health conditions while boosting immune function
and helping prevent other infections. But when
you subject these fruits and vegetables to enough
radiation to kill 99.9% of the pathogens that may
be hitching a ride, you also destroy many of the
phytonutrients responsible for these tremendous
health benefits!

This means that while irradiating food may decrease
outbreaks of food-borne illnesses, it will have the
unintended consequence of increasing the number
of people who get sick from other infections (and
chronic diseases) due to the fact that their source
of natural medicine has been destroyed. For many
Americans, you see, salad greens are their one
remaining source for phytonutrients. Given their
diets of processed foods, junk foods and cooked
foods, there are very few opportunities for these
consumers to get fresh, phytonutrient-rich foods
into their diet. And now the USDA wants to take
that away, too, by mandating the irradiation of
all fresh produce.

Let me make a rather obvious prediction, on the
record: If the irradiation of fresh produce goes
into effect in the United States, rates of infection
among consumers will sharply increase, not decrease,
due to the removal of immune-boosting natural
medicine from the food supply. Consumers will also
experience higher rates of cancer, heart disease,
dementia, eye disorders, diabetes and even obesity.
By destroying these thousands of healing phytonutrients,
irradiation will leave many consumers defenseless against
modern society's many health challenges.
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