2006-09-13 03:53:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
I wouldn't worry about the polluted air as much as what is done to milk from the cow to your table. There is nothing like fresh raw milk, but not everyone grew up on a dairy. Dairies consolidated and grew into the milk industry, regulators passed legislation requiring pasteurization when they may have been better served inspecting the cleanliness of the dairies. Pasteurization does kill the bugs, but heating destroys some of the nutritional value as well. Now wholesale homogenization is the norm since Americans need a consistent white substence and can't figure out how to stir the cream back into the milk. Unfortunately this breaks the triglyceride membranes up and facilitates oxidation. Then it's put in plastic jugs, which may or may not leach chemicals into the milk, but certainly allow ultraviolet light in that speeds oxidation and decay. I participated in a study in college where we had people taste test various milks, and we discovered they actually preferred oxidized milk because this was what they were used to buying at the grocery store - yuck.
2006-09-13 04:08:50 · answer #1 · answered by drcurtis777 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To this day the sheep in Wales are supposed to be monitored for radio activity before they are sold.
However sheep can be bed & breakfasted for three weeks anywhere, then they can claim to be reared where ever that point was.
The accepted half life of Radio Activity is supposed to be 1000 years. Which means it takes a 1000 years to become half its original strength.
The human body has a lifetime dose of 3 weeks two years after the initial release. So if you build a nuclear shelter and stay in it for 2 years you have 3 weeks to leave the area before you die from it.
There are many different isotopes all with different yeilds.
Think what terrorists can do with one of these and why Governments all over the world are concerned.
Or course the contaminated area is relativly small if there is no fall out. That is no wind.
The Stationary Office sell a booklet on it.
I forget the number but it does contain a lot of this data if you spend time working it up from the base provided.
No I don't have a Nuclear Shelter.
2006-09-13 04:20:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean Chernobyl disaster 1986? Or something different? If that disaster (i believe it was the biggest one) it's pretty safe if you in UK. The air went mostly to the south e.g. Turkey. The most effected parts are Belorussia, Ukraine and some parts of Russia (republics of former soviet union). in less quantities Belgium. Control is in place
2006-09-13 04:00:49 · answer #3 · answered by Everona97 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chernobyl? Yes it's perfectly safe. Only very small amounts of radiation reached UK, we didn't have any problems from it.
2006-09-13 04:04:11 · answer #4 · answered by Oracle Of Delphi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THERE ARE MORE LEAKS ND PROBLEMS TODAY FROM THE REACTORS IN ENGLAND TO WORRY ABOUT SOMETHING NOW 20 YEARS OLD
2006-09-13 04:06:35 · answer #5 · answered by RAMSBOTTOM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's not then we're all screwed by now aren't we?!
2006-09-13 04:03:25 · answer #6 · answered by No_More_Drama 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋