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T MILKING FEAR i 0 SCARE UP MONEY JLLA 20, 199$ BY LARRY KaTZE\s-rEI\ Food & Water's outrageous conduct tit engineered products. Bach as the Fla%r5ast tomato. centun - most intensn'eiv since the earn 19505 t'ennont motivated me to write this article, that are now amvmt on store shelves. wnen the L.S. Army began testing a as a way to pre. Philosophically Food & slater is right in sync serve food rations. Its benefits include killing pests ~e hid) describes the urtSnvorY tntti[5 ttr)t with the Cnabomber.'whose tenor-by-mail rampage on domestic and imported produce, extending the Food & Water has relied on throughout its - 16 bombs, 22 peopie %sounded and thin dead- is shelf life of food and destroying harmful bacteria existence. Running this article z if paid adver- fueled ov his hatted of what he calls a corrupt such as salmonella that cause food poisoning hsentent [timed out to be the only practical technological and industrial society. When the Food irradiation is now used in some 40 tour- Unabomber mailed his anti-technology manifesto tries !including Great Britain. France, the former war to get it into print. 1 have not accepted to the New York Times last month the claims he Soviet Union and the Netherlands) on well over alit payment for this article, but instead have won't kill again provided that the entire document 100 foods, from apples to trog legs. kind until Foci asked Cabot to contribute $2,000 to the is published), he took a swipe at genetic engineering & Water came along, it aroused little interest or Vermont Land Tnut. by listing the return address as Calgene Inc.. the debate in the U.S. maker of the FlavrSavr tomato. I first became interested in food irradiation and Thanks to friends in Vermont, I've been keep- Similarly, the "return address" for Food & Food & Water in 1981. when 1 was a health writer at ing up with Food Is Water's campaign agtiust Water's Vermont campaign is Monsanto, maker of Consumer Reports. And the more t studied uadia- Cabot Creasery and recombinant bovine growth genetically engineered rBGH. "What's wrong with a tion and examined the charges made against it, the hormone 4GH)..Among the material sent to me little healthy distrust of companies like Monsanto?" more I realized the technology wu'am rorerstal' was Food & Water's widely distributed June 6 letter, - Food & Water asked Vermonters in a recent broad- only because food Is Water made it so. The article in Which the group gave Cabot an ultimatum: side against Cabot Creamery. 1 eventually wrote. for the December 1992 issue of Guarantee your products are "rBGH-free" or face "a The lesson is cr star cleat. All manmade them- American Health. was called Food Irradiation: The real Food & Water campaign." icals and processes must be considered guilty until Fans Behind the Scare. A condensed version As a health writer and editor - first at proven Innocent," Food & Water founder Wally ('Good Food You Can't Get") appeared in the July Consumer Reports, now at American Health Bumstein has declared. And after reaching its 1993 Issue of Reader's Digest. magazine - I've followed Food It Water nearly anhan atic gnHty verdict, Food & Water imposes Food irradiation essentially pamstrizes food, from its inception. So I feel I can tell Vermonters a hush sentence, as Cabot bin discovered- killing more thin 99% of bacteria and other organ- what to expect from a "real Food & Water campaign" 'If you want to be associated with Monsanto, isms. It does not make food radioactive. It's akin to and offer them some insights into this self-styled Roberta, go right ahead" said Bumstein in a voice. what happens when you send your luggage "food safety group" that professes such gnat concern mail message that he left for Cabot spokesperson through an airport scanner: Your suitcase is irradi- for their health and welfare. Roberta MacDonald last month. "But if you want to ated but doesn't become radioactive. Unfortunately, The dram unfolding in vermont is just make a Bvln& if you want to have a dean reputation, evidence of safety and effectiveness are no match the latest production to a long-running show, then you'd better listen to Food & Water If you for a good conspiracy theory, a favorite Food & performed to sized reviews In new Jersey, don't listen, Robetta. you guys are going to go down Water tactic. Florida and several other slates Minor plot the tubes." 2. Create a comphug. changes are penciled in. but the basic script for "a Bumstein a retired Denville, N.J., osteopath Food & Water rivals any paramilitary group in real Food & Water campaign" contains the same and longtime ants-nuclear activist, founded Food & expressing profound suspicions about the Federal standard props. Water in 1986. Burstein was soon joined by government Y• drug or piroceiiii nme- Michael Colby, a 1986 dropout from the University roue co- 1. Demonize new tedanohr;la. of Iowa who had majored in Jounulism and political adppro approval Food & Watt has even won government Remember the Luddites, the English rioters of honestly. In every case, the group the early IBM who smashed textile machinery science lithe only ").Colby he ever took college, tends, the Fels have allowed - sometimes even ven he told me me proudly). Colby rnarned the boss's nielb that had put them out of work? Food & Water is a and is now the group's executive director. In 1991, encouraged - glans corporations to foist that toxic direct descendant of those opponents of the wars on an unsuspecting nation of'guirw pigs," Industrial Revolution but with a modem twist. Colby relocated Food & Water's headquarters; from a term used often in Food Is Water literature. Rath) than bash new technologies with sledge- New York City to Marshfield. Vermont, where he In Vermont, of course, the cabal involves lives on a farm his stepfather bought him. The duo Monsanto and the FDA. which have presumably hammer. Food It Water w{ddt far - to beep of Bumsten and Colby shape Food & Water policy conspued to smirch rBGH on the public ICs hardly techaafegies tram wb dog paw arxeptaalb, and tactics. eliminate big companies in favor of small, family- 1986, nuclear power was moribund and the the tint time food & Water has used such a tactic. In Typi owned enterprise, and scum up donations totaling nuclear arms ram was winding down, so food & may' W nmpalgn Bpi" fend irradiation more than half a million dollars last year alone. The Water set its sights on food irradiation, a food- lapped directly into the peak's dlsteart of income insures that Food & Water's staff, unlike the 8A unfortunate Luddites, wig never face penury. protesting technology that the U.S. Food and Drug Picture a plan of food, a mushroom cloud hov- eed & Ware's crusade against rBGH has glum AdmWStsation had approved earlier that year for tinting alcove and this slogan: THE DEPARTMENT Food & a taste of the group's 9GH h s give . use on fruits and vegetables. Attacking food iradia- OF ENERGY HAS A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM The hormone's e's symbolism - the lint genetically tion would offer Food It Water a mans of pursuing OF RADIOACTIVE WASFE YOU'RE GOING TO The hormone's - its and-nuclei agenda, Just as the group's want EAT fI. That soahe, featured on Lshins sold by makes eIt an ngineered d agricultural product r Water t to target be et marketed battle against rBGH is its way of attacking genetic Food & Wars, ap rism the essence of a classic Food fail fan ova rBGH, the group hopes By areas- to tarn mfg' & Water t'arupbacy cheats: that food irtad'utlon is f Fred the Wblk against the maty other Rm etkallY antic recently, y, y, has Irradiation. nl beeFood & n ns S stu udied White's since e early sae in target this nothing more it= an Energy DepanmmUfndustry has