STOP IRRADIATED MEAT AT WEGMANS!

Come to a local press conference / rally and
voice your opposition to irradiated food!


What: Press conference / rally to oppose irradiated food at Wegmans
Where: East Avenue Wegmans, 1750 East Ave. (northwest side of store) Rochester, NY
When: 11:00 am, Saturday, June 29, 2002

Wegmans grocery stores have recently begun to sell "fresh" irradiated hamburger meat under their own Wegmans label. They will tell you it is safe. They will tell you that with this technology you can eat your hamburgers rare.

Here is what they will not tell you:

Irradiation exposes food to a dose of ionizing radiation that is equivalent to millions of chest x-rays to kill bacteria and to extend shelf-life. However, it causes the creation of new chemicals in the food, many of which have not been tested for safety, and degrades the nutritional content of food. The real purpose of irradiation is to mask filthy conditions in slaughterhouses and food processing plants. Irradiation can kill most bacteria in food, but it does nothing to remove the feces, urine, pus and vomit that often contaminates meat. The bottom line is this: irradiated filth is still filth.


This event is being held by Irradiated Food Free NY (IFFNY)
Promoting Healthy Farms and Healthy People

Groups Include
EMPIRE STATE CONSUMER ASSOCIATION * GREEN PARTY OF MONROE COUNTY * POLITICS OF FOOD * PUBLIC CITIZEN * ROCHESTERIANS AGAINST MISUSE OF PESTICIDES

Get Involved
If you or your group is interested in learning more about food irradiation, please contact Monique with Public Citizen at 202-454-5185 or check out
the website www.citizen.org/cmep/foodsafety/

To get involved in the Rochester area campaign, please contact
Judy at 585-383-1317.

Also, you can register a customer complaint online @ www.wegmans.com or fill out one of those cards at your local Wegmans store. It's a very useful way of sending the message. Since their schtik is customer service they will seriously reply to your complaint. I registered a complaint about GMOs a while back and they called me at my house and talked to me for about a half hour about it.