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Tuesday with Philberg's avatar

Throw away your microwave often too. Nuking food, especially protein, deforms the shape of the amino acids in protein and hence ruins the nutritional value of it. Restaurants are notorious for preparing food before hand and then nuking it for the customer.

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Tuesday with Philberg's avatar

whoops - oven, not often... (doh)

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

I knew what you meant, Phil!

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

Absolutely! I told my husband that when we build our new house in Idaho, I do not want a microwave oven! I’ll have a double convection & traditional gas oven, but NO microwave.

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SadieJay's avatar

Cows are like wild game. The taste of the meat totally depends upon what they are eating. A Wyoming Muley has a taste all it's own compared to the Michigan Whitetail, who eat green stuff all the time. I will def look for that little symbol on the food. I will let you know in 100 years if there are any side effects. I swear, these three letter agencies are beholden to the ghoulish 'scientists' of the future for some odd reason, because they are going to be the ones seeing three headed Americans and having to figure out what happened. Farmer's markets and preserving is the way to go. Local...!! We will put our name on a cow raised by our neighbor as well. Nice post.

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

I agree about these ghoulish 3-letter agencies. There’s something badly wrong with them and reaches far beyond greed; though, there certainly is that.

Yes! Meat from different regions tastes differently, reflecting what they eat. Same for honey, chocolate (REAL chocolate), wine, etc.

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SadieJay's avatar

Yes....in Idaho we have meat tastings. "Hmmm, this bovine has a hint of sage with the aroma of cowpie that finishes up with a slight metallic taste, could be Hornady copper."

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David Cashion's avatar

Your source is Center for Food Safety.

None of their articles that I saw concerning irradiation of foods have any sources.

Are you OK with that?

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

The sources are on another page. Plus there are MANY scholarly studies I found saying the same things and even more, but they are behind a paywall and not everyone can access them. I have access through my college student child.

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David Cashion's avatar

Everything is a trade off.

Something dies so something can survive.

I don't want to go back to the farming (any kind) methods of the past.

Pick the era when you think it was done right. Then look at the world starvation rate of that era.

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

I don’t want to go back to the past either! Heck no!

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David Cashion's avatar

The more that radiation is used the less poisons are needed

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

Yeah, but the radiation produces poisons. We grow all of our own foods each season (except meat and cheese, etc., but we get local grass-fed. Anyway, we use permaculture growing principles and NEVER use inorganic poisons. So it CAN be done. No way I’m feeding my family irradiated produce, meat, etc. We don’t even eat grains in our home, so that’s not a concern.

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David Cashion's avatar

Try to feed the world with your methods.

Grass fed beef taste like dirt.

Best to finish the cow with grains.

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

I have no interest in feeding the world with my methods -- only our family and local community in solidarity with other likeminded people, David.

It’s ok if you don’t agree. Do your thing, support the activities you like. Ad majorem Dei gloriam. Pax vobiscum.

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David Cashion's avatar

So you don't advocate for the prohibition of methods you dis agree with ?

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