Finger-Lickin’ Good

Researchers at the Savannah River (S.C.) Ecology Laboratory have suggested how low-level nuclear waste at weapons sites might be cleaned up: feed it to chickens. The chickens’ high metabolism burns off the waste, the researchers say, and after removal from the site and feeding the chickens non contaminated food for 10 days, any leftover radiation in their bodies is eliminated. Would the meat sell? “If that meat is cheaper and you call it radioactively cleaned meat and you put it on the shelf for half price, I bet people in this country would eat it,” one of the researchers claims. (AP) ...They forgot the number one sales point: it’s meat that cooks itself!