[Newsbot]

Title: Health Canada approves sale of irradiated ground beef
Category: Business
Posted By: Alta_redneck
Date: 2017-02-22 20:04:58
Canadian

[Alta_redneck]

I think I'll take a pass on that.

[housewife]

Yeah I will pass on that too

[martin14]

$1:

Health Canada says irradiated ground beef products must be labelled as such.

Something like this ?

[DrCaleb]

You guys are hilarious! Your computer gives off radiation. So do the lights in your house. And your cell phone. Are you afraid of them? No!

Because when you turn them off, the radiation stops. Just like Gamma Radiation used to sterilize meat. It's 'ionizing radiation' that is the dangerous kind, not 'Electromagnetic radiation'.

[DrCaleb]

Now, eating barnyard surprise ground beef, that is a whole other conversation.

[Matlow]

Not sure what the hoopla is about irradiating beef? I have no issue with it at all. For those of you that do you had better recycle your microwave...

Zap the meat get rid of ecoli etc and no one get sick. The real problem is that the abbatoir's processes are such that the meat gets contaminated in the first place.

I guess now the sloppy processors will use radiation as a really cheap alternative to keeping things clean.

[Thanos]

A crash course in the differences between wave radiation versus particulate radiation is called for but at this moment in our societal devolution it would most likely be a waste of time.

[DrCaleb]

Matlow Matlow:

I guess now the sloppy processors will use radiation as a really cheap alternative to keeping things clean.

Exactly. And the reliance on feedlots to fatten cattle also contributes to the increase of disease. Cattle also aren't meant to eat grains, and the excess sugars they contain are also playgrounds for bacteria, so they are given antibiotics to calm their incredible flatulence and upset stomachs.

So instead of grass feeding cattle, let's just risk antibiotic resistance wiping us out and irradiate everything instead.

[BartSimpson]

Vaccines are frequently irradiated. Not that I have a problem with that but just figured I'd toss this into the mix for

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524899/

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Vaccines are frequently irradiated. Not that I have a problem with that but just figured I'd toss this into the mix for

Yup. They are irradiated for the same reason the beef is. To kill viruses, bacteria and microorganisms.

To make them safe for people.

[herbie]

Sitting on Facebook all day, wireless router nine inches from it, wireless keyboard and mouse cuz wires are ugly, cellphone glued to face telling us irradiated food is going to make us have kids with three eyes.
DING.. sorry the microwave went off the petroleum byproduct with added sugar Pizza Pops are ready GTG

[Strutz]

It can't be any worse than what happens to the beef between the time it leaves its source to the time it hops into those trays at the store as it is now.

[raydan]

Glow in the dark shit.

[herbie]

Maybe it makes the pink slime glow in the dark. That would be a consumer plus!