Call me paranoid, but the best way to take over/destroy a country is not necessarily to outright attack it.
We buy their stuff. We know this and they know it. How many more tainted products to we have to get from them to see that it isn't just a quality control issue.
Their government just sits by and makes token examples of some of the people responsible for it.
The Roman empire, didn't fall because it was conquered. It fell because it got lazy.
]]>@Nogard13: I like how everyone buys a wolf shirt after they get their uranium. Ha!
]]>Oh, that was priceless. I wish someone would do a parody like that!
]]>Just don't breathe the butter steam and you'll be fine.
]]>@sanjsrik: I hit a fence post with my shovel the other day. The blast cleared all vegetation within a quarter mile.
]]>@WarOtter: That may be the habanero, not the radiation :).
]]>3.5 microcuries
]]>That's a plus side, right?
]]>@1SQ: The issue here is that it's contaminated metals. Of course that could be medical equipment which could be harmless or highly radioactive valves, piping, etc. from a reactor with large ammounts of decomposing Cobalt-60 (which releases gamma radiation), with a half-life or around 6 years. Of course even then you probably wouldn't get that much dose given how diluted the contaminants would be.
]]>This gives me an idea for a product - a kitchen geiger counter. Now, you too can know how many rads you get from your food! It's like Fallout.
]]>@winshape: Heh hey, you said "slow news day".
No, really; why are you here?
@winshape:
The cheese grater they found contained "Cobalt 60"
Unlike uranium, which is naturally occurring, Cobalt 60 has to be made using a nuclear reactor. It emits the strongest form of radiation - called gamma rays.
"If the grater is in your kitchen drawer…and you're standing near that drawer - the gamma rays can pass through it - which means you can absorb the radiation."
I first heard rumours of BPA in plastic bottles from these groups and discounted it as crackpottery. Now it's a real issue with some governments thankfully banning it. With the radioactive scrap metal rumor being true now too, it makes me wonder about some of the others: lead in the crockpot glaze that leeches out over time but is within FDA allowable amounts, chemicals in disposable menstrual pads that slow down flow so women have longer periods and thus use more pads, neurotoxins in the flame retardent sprayed on mattresses, pillows, and infant sleepwear...are any of those true as well?
How the hell is the average person supposed to be able to tell what's an insane conpiracy theory and what's actually a dangerous product? It's all so frustrating and depressing. :(
]]>I can see that ShamWow guy now..."look at this grater!...it grates and MELTS the cheese in one step and now after using it, I don't have to worry about getting chicks pregnant!"
]]>@rkaufman: Giving up is a bad idea. Have some self respect and stand up for yourself and others.
]]>I gave up when I learned that microwave popcorn contains carcinogens.
]]>I actually prefer radiation in cooking utensils. Mark Twain called radiation "the spice of life."
Okay, I just made that shit up about Mark Twain, but I bet he'd say it if he thought of it.
]]>I'm thinking a cross between Mario and Stretch Armstrong
]]>That said, it doesn't make the businesses over here any less guilty. They want to keep costs as low as possible, so as far as I'm concerned they're as much to blame as the Chinese.
]]>@sanjsrik:
Or scald the roof of your mouth because you do not pay attention to the fact that your cheese stick just came out of a vat of hot grease.
Then you eat another one with the same consequence because you did not learn the first time... not that it has ever happened to me.
]]>@dorkhero: That's the spirit!
Can I be on your will???
]]>You really want to avoid exposure to radioactivity? Don't smoke.
]]>I also never skimp on chocolate chips. Tollhouse only for me. However, I am dumbfounded as to why my supermarket prices the 24 oz bags of Tollhouse chips at more than twice the cost of the 12 oz bags.
I opt for store brand when it comes to all kinds of things. However, I have the easiest time sticking to store brands when I know that it's food that is basically what you see is what you get. Like block cheese, butter, yogurt, etc.
]]>"It's been determined that research causes cancer in rats"
]]>Seriously. It's like people need to continually make up things to be scared and/or worried about.
]]>and what, praytell would be mozzarella man's powers be? The ability to be extra salty and would he also have a cousin, buffuleta man?
]]>Paul Pickle accidentally eats some pizza, made with cheese grated with a radioactive cheese grater.
From that moment on, he becomes Mozzarella Man, blessed with all the powers of an Italian cheese!
]]>I don't see that changing anytime soon.
]]>Sorry. I hit 'cancer overload' about a year ago. I am sick of being told by the media that anything I can touch, smell, eat, see, or hear WILL give me cancer. We are all born knowing that we will die. It's how we live our lives that matters. I for one will not spend my life living in fear.
]]>I keep wondering why it is I can find my recliner in the dark now, oh, wait, it's because of the Strontium 90.
ahh, the joys of the nuc-u-lear age.
]]>Oho, so that's the reason why my homemade pizza and my cooking utensils were glowing in the dark!
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