Maybe...just maybe...food must be small scale produced to be safe. Lots and lots of small scale producers like me rather than the Dean Foods, the Tysons, the Nebraska Beefs,etc. can do a better, safer job.

Have you ever considered that some of us want to produce safe food because it's the right thing to do, rather than just to keep out liability premiums down?

Bob Hayles

This is the only suggestion I take issue with. Not because I'm afraid of irradation, but rather because I think it will lead to lax sanitation up the line. 'Eh, it's tainted, but that's OK, the radiation will kill it, so who cares?'

My suggestion is more in line with Bob Hoyle's comment - we need to think smaller. We're in this mess partially because cows are supposed to eat grass, not grain and chicken manure. We're the consumers - we have a choice. ConAgra, ADM, IBP - I'm doing everything I can think of to tell my family and friends about the dangers of agribusiness ground beef.