Day: September 10, 2025

On summer vacation I bought a bag of shrimp and cooked it up with a few meals during the mid-week. Fried up with onions and zucchini it’s wonderful! I didn’t start glowing at night and the risk was basically zero. We are constantly being bombarded with radioactivity from space and radon is constantly seeping from the ground around here. Radioactivity is an invisible force and in that sense it’s scary, but let’s be realistic only 60 years ago the world was testing nuclear bombs above ground, and milk and ice cream had significant amounts of Cesium-137 in it.

It’s not to say we should go out of our way expose ourselves to radioactivity or that Cesium-137 in ice cream and milk is desirable. But whatever. There are far less healthy things to eat besides slightly radioactive shrimp, namely most of the processed food and sweets that are all over these days. Frozen pre-cooked shrimp are one of the most inexpensive and convenient sources of protein to add to a dish and are quite tasty to. If you eat processed food, then why are you concerned about radioactive shrimp?