Food sterilization

Is not something we think about.
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Perhaps we should.
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Because the result of food sterilization is to make it less healthful, not more.
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All pasteurized food is depleted of enzymes and vitamins.
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This is important because the living bacteria in raw dairy and unpasteurized sauerkraut actually contribute to the intestinal flora that help nourish the body and ward off illness.
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Sterile food is a target for opportunistic contamination by harmful salmonella, E. coli, and other bacteria
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This is because they do not need to compete with the original benign bacteria in unpasteurized milk and other foods.
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And once this approach has been adopted it has to be maintained.
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Fermentation the approach used by traditional cultures is not acceptable as it is unpredictable.
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Unpredictability is no use for industrial food production that demands uniform products and long shelf life.
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Going one step further.
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The latest method of sterilization is irradiation, used extensively on spices, meat, and other foods.
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In this process the food is exposed to radioactive nuclear waste.
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This is done at a level sufficient to kill anything alive in it.
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How can anyone imagine that such food can nourish humans if it cannot nourish bacterial life?
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It cannot and yet there is no discussion.
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No alarm.
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No concern that we have removed the ambient microorganisms as well as complex cultures of hundreds of species of yeasts.
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Removed bacteria that were symbiotic with each other.
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And with the human beings they co-evolved with over generations.
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No wonder that we have so many intestinal problems we have removed our natural defences against illness.
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There are however some winners from this situation.
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If we can call destroying humanity winning.
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Looked at through eyes of money this is called winning.
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By any other measure it is evil.
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Food companies win as their products last longer.
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Pharmaceutical companies win selling us antibiotics against our new diseases.
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So called health supplement sellers win as they provide what the body used to look after for itself.
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Is there anything we can do?
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Yes get involved where appropriate fighting against these interests.
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Help publicise this situation.
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Eat naturally grown foods where possible.
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Support locally grown organic producers.
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Inform others about the above.
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Want to shock yourself then read below.
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Read between the lines what they are not saying.
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Read what they imply.
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Information put out by an organisation promoting the irradiation of ever more of our foods.

Are they kidding!
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These people have money.
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They lobby for their interests.
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Note how one sector after another is approved for such treatment, year after year.
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Be active in promoting your well being by not buying such products.