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How do people feel about eating radioactive food? Would you continue to do so if you knew it was radioactive?

Ionizing radiation is currently fairly widely used to disinfect the seriously contaminated US food supply (and those of other countries). I'm wondering if many people know about this, and do you care (or, at the very least, would you want to know if the food you're buying is irradiated?). {It's actually not really radio active (for the most part), however, a 4.5kilGray dose is equal to 150 million x-rays. The doses permitted by the FDA vary, but most doses are above this level (fruits and vegetables, get a max of 100,00 rads (1 kiloGray), poultry gets 450,000 rads (4.5 kiloGray), for red meat, 700,000 rads (7 kiloGray), for spices 3,000,000 rads (30 kiloGray).}

Public Comments

1. I've known it for years and I'm still eating. If the radiation doesn't get you, something else will.
2. i m a bit blinded by science. being on the change of life i glow enough already, don t want to glow anymore, no i wouldn t eat it, if i did would the men in black be after me??!!
3. Of course I would. The fact that I know it is radioactive doesn't change my chances of turning into a laser-vision using, stealth camoflauge hiding, wall climbing superhero, and until it does I will continue to eat radioactive foods.