Ok, I thought this was a fun article about the safety of our milk supply. The main content of this article focuses on the radiation that can be found in milk, how much is harmful to the human body, and how much was specifically discovered in the milk tested in Washington.
First of all, who the hell cares? This is just another attempt by the FDA to wriggle out of their losing battle that American milk is healthy. It’s a fight they’ve been waging for years, using many drastic attempts to create this grand illusion that milk helps build strong bones and teeth. Perhaps his most successful campaign came from Got Milk? as well as the food pyramid instituted in all primary schools in the country. Radiation in our milk supply should be the least of our concerns when consuming this substance. Note that I refer to bad milk as non-grass fed pasteurized milk with cows subjected to steroids, antibiotics and growth hormones.
So on to the main content of this article. According to a study conducted by the FDA, “The Food and Drug Administration said it detected a small amount of radioactive iodine-131 in a milk sample from Spokane, Washington.” To summarize, the article goes on to assume that our milk is safe because A: the radiation in the milk tested is not as bad as the milk tested in Japan, and B: the radiation that was detected in the milk is not really harmful. people, not even babies, since it was more than likely that the sensitivity of some magnificent piece of equipment would be detected in the first place. Hmm, sounds like a postponement to me, as in other words, “Don’t pay attention to our findings, let’s say our team is that good so we can change the subject.”
When interviewed about the milk tested, Robert Henkin, a professor at the Stritch School of Medicine, agreed that there is no real concern with the radiation found in milk. To compare the findings, Henkin says that finding such a small amount of radiation is akin to rounding error in accounting. He exclaims, “If you balance your books and have 2 cents off a $30,000 budget, is anyone worried about that? No.” Oh? So don’t fix it if it ain’t broke? This is exactly what I’m talking about folks. There’s too much of “We’ll deal with it when it happens” instead of “Let’s take preventative measures so nothing happens in the first place.” Health mechanics VS. health gardeners.
Essentially, this man is comparing money to physical health. Two cents is material, however, inside our body, everything comes into play, even in small doses. Isn’t this the point of science anyway, to ask why and how? We have absolutely no idea how much of anything it takes to put our bodies into speech. We have some pretty good ideas, but what if this little radiation was enough to send some people astray?
Yes, Henkin goes on to admit that we are exposed to tons of natural radiation every day, from smoking and flying on planes. Notice that it says natural when referring to man-made inventions. Last time I looked, smoking in the first or second person is considered pretty unhealthy, and flying on planes? This comes out of left field. Is Henkin claiming that, well, since there are other harmful radiations we’re exposed to, it doesn’t really matter if we add another one to the mix?
In conclusion, this article jumps from radiation detection in a milk study, to a college professor telling us not to worry, to that same professor telling us that, well, since we’re exposed to smoking and airplanes , how can radiation in our milk? be very different, and eventually to radiation in the water that washes up on American shores from Japan’s nuclear reactors. Leave the roller coaster. This just goes to show that by isolating a very small percentage of a study and taking a single serving of a substance like milk, that substance can be turned into this big thing, when in reality, this is just one of hundreds, and probably more. minor tremors we have to consider in the dairy world.
I may be a bit biased when it comes to health food claims, but you can’t say I don’t passionately scrutinize it. Until next time. Tommy.
Article posted 31 Mar 11 from http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/03/31/135015438/got-radiation-only-harmless-traces-found-in-us-milk
