FDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables

Friday, August 22, 2008 by: Mike Adams (see all articles by this author)
Key concepts: Food, The FDA and Irradiation

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(NaturalNews) The FDA has announced that
beginning today, spinach and lettuce sold across the United States may
now be secretly irradiated before it reaches grocery store shelves.
What's "secret" about it? The FDA previously decided that irradiation
warning stickers would not be required on any food items because it
would be "too confusing to consumers." (The word IRRADIATION apparently
has too many letters to be understood to food buyers.) Thus, irradiated
foods will not be labeled as such, and consumers are going to be left
in the dark about all this (except for those who actually eat the
irradiated food, in which case they will glow in the dark).

The FDA, of course, insists that the levels of irradiation used to kill e.coli will have no effect whatsoever on the nutritional
value of the food. This astonishing statement comes from an agency that
doesn't believe food has any nutritional value in the first place, so
lowering the value to zero by destroying all the phytonutrients does not, in the opinion of the FDA, alter its nutritional value at all. Thus, destroying all the anti-cancer nutrients in a head of broccoli merely brings that broccoli into "compliance" as a non-functional food, according to the FDA.

Radiation, of course, destroys delicate phytochemicals in plants -- the very phytochemicals protecting consumers against cancer,
heart disease, high cholesterol, inflammation and other diseases.
Microwaving broccoli, for example, destroys up to 98% of its
anti-cancer nutrients. (The FDA has not yet acknowledged this
scientific fact, either.) In a similar way, irradiating food destroys
much of its nutritional content, including vitamins, carotenoids,
anthocyanins and other delicate protective nutrients that are right now
providing the last, desperate nutritional defense against the American
diet of meat, milk, fried foods and processed junk.

Irradiating fresh produce will leave the U.S. population is a state of extreme deficiency in protective plant-based nutrients.

Does the FDA plan to destroy the health of the U.S. population?

Many
people suspect that's what the FDA really wants. A
nutritionally-deficient, disease-ridden population would mean a
windfall of profits for the FDA's buddies in Big Pharma -- the folks
who sell patented medications at monopoly prices. With the food supply destroyed by radiation, ordinary people would have virtually no remaining sources of protective phytonutrients!

In
promoting this food radiation policy, the FDA has accomplished what all
the terrorists in the world could not: The mass irradiation of the U.S.
food supply -- much like setting off a dirty bomb over the nation's farms (but with
less radiation). This destruction of the nutritional value of the food
supply is a far greater threat to the health of the U.S. population
than any terrorist event, including 9/11. And yet it is being done by our own people, TO
our own people, by a lawless agency that answers to no one. FDA
officials are not voted into office by the People; they are appointed
by politicians. They answer to no one, they refuse to follow federal
law, and they operate as tyrants over a quarter of the U.S. economy.

And now they have taken it upon themselves to destroy the national food supply.

We should be more than just alarmed -- we should be outraged! The FDA has committed an act of war against the People.
With this decision, the FDA has firmly positioned itself as an enemy of
the People, and a bringer of death and disease to the nation. Why are
our elected representatives in Washington allowing this madness?

Think about this: If the FDA has its way:

• All your food will be irradiated, pasteurized or killed
• All your children will be vaccinated
• All your medicine will be based on pharmaceuticals
• All your free speech about health will be suppressed
• All informative labeling on food and supplements will be outlawed
• Growing and selling non-irradiated garden vegetables will become a crime!

Today it's spinach and lettuce; tomorrow it's all fresh produce

Don't
think the FDA will stop with spinach and lettuce, either. They're
already talking about irradiating tomatoes, peppers and onions. Before
long, radiation could become mandatory for ALL fresh produce,
and all the fresh fruits and vegetables that are supposed to contain
health-protecting nutrients will be transformed into sterile, inert
plant mass with no health benefits at all. (Brilliant scam, huh?)

This is by design.
I believe the FDA wants the American public to be sickened and
diseased. Why else would they ban Free Speech about healing foods like
cherries, broccoli and garlic? Why would they outlaw the selling of herbs and nutritional supplements that claim to treat and prevent disease? The FDA wants you to be sick, enslaved and medicated, and irradiating the food supply is the quickest way to accomplish that.

He who controls the food controls the People.

He who destroys the food can profit from the People's sickness.

The FDA's crimes against humanity

In pushing this radiation agenda, the FDA is committing a crime against humanity -- a nutritional atrocity that violates fundamental human rights. And
yet the FDA's top decision makers continue to operate with zero
oversight and zero accountability. They make decisions in a
corporate-sponsored vacuum, absent any input from reasonable,
health-conscious consumers or scientists. And because they have been
granted tyrannical powers by Congress, the FDA operates above the law.

It
is not subject to any laws whatsoever; not even the U.S. Constitution
which is supposed to protect the People's right to "Life, Liberty and
the Pursuit of Happiness" (as stated in the Declaration of
Independence).

The mass irradiation of the food supply is a
violation of the "Life" part of that phrase, wouldn't you agree? If we
can no longer buy nourishing foods with their nutrients intact, then we
are all doomed to degenerative disease and death... but not before
paying out our life savings to doctors, drug companies and hospitals.
That's the evil genius of the food irradiation plot: It kills you slowly, at just the right pace to drain your bank account before you expire from malnutrition.

I truly believe this irradiation of the food supply is the beginning of the end of America. No nation can survive the destruction of its food supply.
The FDA is dooming America to a slow, painful, medicated death. In a
generation, this nation will be lost, destroyed from within by
short-sighted tyrants who violated nature and left the People to rot.

What you can do right now to fight this latest transgression by the FDA

For starters, you can:

1) Grow your own food. A little gardening is good. Grow whatever you can, even if it's just a few kitchen herbs.

2) Buy your food at farmer's markets, coops and CSAs. See http://www.localharvest.org/csa

3) Ask your grocery store if they are buying irradiated spinach. If they don't know, demand they find out!

4)
Raise hell with your Senators and Congresspeople, demanding they pass
new laws protecting consumers from the FDA and its plot to destroy the
nutritional value of the food supply.

Also, listen to two podcasts I've posted on this topic. The first was recorded several months ago,
where I publicly predicted the FDA would do exactly what we're seeing
right now. Listen to that podcast here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...

The second podcast was just posted today. I recorded it right before writing this article.
It goes into much greater detail about the FDA's plot to destroy the
health of the U.S. population. You can listen to that here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...

Finally, don't stand for this food supply madness! Raise your voice. Write your local paper, call your representatives in
Washington and tell them you strongly oppose the irradiation of the
food supply. Teach people about phytonutrients. And stay tuned to
NaturalNews as we continue to cover this important story.

The
FDA has gone mad. Criminally mad. It is an agency that will literally
kill you if given the chance, and it is up to all of us to stop this
madness before we lose our health, our children and our very nation.

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