[stametseater]

Obviously food irradiation is done at specialized processing facilities where hunters would send their kills, not at home. Here's a clue for you: it's already the case that most hunters don't process their own meat.

> That's plainly nuts.

You're the one who said it, so right back at you buddy. Stop pulling absurdities out of your ass and attributing them to other people to have something to disagree with.

[HarryHirsch]

Not sure if your average family-owned deer processor would want a gamma source with all the required safeguards in their facility. And they'd have to get it past the customers too, there's going to be resistance with at least some of them.

A friend from school, his parents owned a butcher shop where they killed and butchered their own hogs (not beef, beef would have been to large for the facility). If anyone had asked him what he wanted - irradiation or inspection plus proper treatment of the meat (boil, fry or hot-smoke) the reply would have been unequivocal and loud.

[ThrowawayTestr]

> specialized processing facilities where hunters would send their kills

Have you ever met a hunter? They do not send their kills to "specialized processing facilities" they send their kills to their buddy Jim who butchers it in his shed. Maybe they know a commerical butcher that will do it for them, and even then it's the butcher down the road. Specialized processing facilities, that's hilarious.

[stametseater]

More than you I think.