Personally I eat Organic when ever I am given the choice. My concern is that they should require that those items irradiated should be labeled as such. For those that chose to eat irradiated food they can choose the packages that carry the irradiated sticker, no problem. For those people like myself, that eat Organic, we should have the choice of not choosing the irradiated product with information listed on the package.
What's wrong with labeling products as Irradiated? They now require that all ingredients are listed on the package, so why not irradiation? Remember when they told us that margarine was better for our health than butter? I would like to have the choice to decide for myself. BTW, magarine is related to plastics more than it is to butter. People that feel safer when choosing the irratiated products will be able to see clearly on the package that it has been irradiated and they can feel safe that their health is not compromised. I hope that foods that are not irradiated will carry a label indicating that fact. Sorta like farmed salmon does now. Without a sticker indicating that it's a farm raised fish with artificial coloring, I could get tricked into buying it, when thinking that it's a wild fish.
Maybe a better question would be... if it's organic should it be irradiated and still be considered organic.
I eat as much organic food as I can kill...but even through the eyes of killers, killing is less in vougue now... ain't it?
Personally I don't need a booklet for everything I buy with a life history of the product and all of it's experiences (organic or inorganic, irradiated or non-irradiated, washed or unwashed).
At some point in our lives we must cut that cord...and walk on our own.... make our own choices not just waiting to be "given the choice"
If you don't like the choices grow your own and kill it if ya' can... but don't biatch about what's put under your nose at the grocery store and demanding more labeling for christ's sake how much crap does one need to know before we realize we're responsible for ourselves? Because the only way we know what we are eating is to control the process from start to ugly finish. ( the picking and killing ).
And NO we don't need to be told about everything that is used to make our food safe.
God Bless Louis Pasteur. And that homo(genized) irradiated food.
I'll work on my own harvest...sorta' the way it was intended before political correctness and LL Bean took over.
RVW