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The food-irradiation industry got special-interest language put into the 2001 Agriculture Appropriations bill that seeks to force the FDA to replace the clear “Treated by Irradiaton” now on irradiated foods with a label that is vague and misleading, such as “Cold Pasturized.”

The industry, apparently taking its cue from the genetically engineered food business, is seeking to conceal its products from consumers by vague labeling. This is intended to remove from consumers the right to make a choice regarding the consumption of foods that have been sterilized by exposure to radioactive elements.
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I have been living with high-level strangeness most of my life. As a child, I took it for granted. When it re-entered my life in December of 1985, I was shocked to my depths.

Since then, the experiences have been a consistent part of my life, and in the past two weeks there has been a new sequence.
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Baffling boulders have been discovered on Mars by an international group of students who won the chance to look at Mars through the camera on board NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.

The students stumbled upon a surprising cluster of dark-colored boulders, situated in the middle of light-colored terrain. Their discovery has baffled Mars scientists, who don’t know how the boulders got there or what geological history they represent.

“It’s puzzling,” says Michael Carr of the U.S. Geological Survey. “I looked at a few pictures around [the area] and couldn’t find anything to explain it. Very puzzling! These are huge boulders. There are no indications of any outcrops that could shed such boulders.”
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British food retailers warned that emergency measures adopted by the government to attempt to halt the spread of hoof-and-mouth disease, discovered in the UK last week, are liable to cause food shortages in the near term.

All importation of live animals and movement of farm animals has been prohibited in an effort to stop spread of the devastating and highly contagious animal sickness. As a result of these measures, animals cannot be put to the slaughter, and shortages of all forms of meat are possible unless the ban is lifted within a few days.
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