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THE USDA's FOOD IRRADIATION PLOT USDA's THE FOOD IRRADIATION PLOT US food and health authorities, in league with corporations, are enacting plans to sterilise the fresh food supply with irradiation, thus destroying essential disease-fighting nutrients and promoting a sick society. Why the USDA Wants to Sterilise Fresh Produce and Turn Live Foods into Dead Foods here's a new plot underway to sterilise our food and destroy the nutritional value of fresh produce. The players in this plot are the usual suspects: the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), which backed the raw almond sterilisation rules now in effect in California, and the American Chemical Society, a pro-chemicals group that represents the interests of industrial chemicals 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 per cent of the bacterial colonies. That's because radiation sterilises 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, the number of food-borne illness outbreaks that happen each year could be substantially reduced. It all makes sense until you realise that by destroying the nutritional value of all fresh produce sold in the United States, irradiation 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, pasteurised 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 heating or irradiation. Thus, 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 and celery prevent cancer, beet greens cleanse the liver, cilantro removes heavy metals, 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 vegetables and fruits to enough radiation to kill 99.9 per cent of the pathogens that may be hitching a ride, you also destroy many of the phytonutrients responsible for these tremendous health benefits! From the web page: http:/Awww.naturalnews.com/ 023015.htm! NEXUS ¢ 31 Editor, NaturalNews.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com