Claims and Allegations
April 30, 2005
JUST WHEN YOU THINK you've heard every fairy tale and crazy notion regarding cell sites a new one rears its ugly head. This one comes from across the pond and has more to do with carbohydrates than it does with common sense.
The BBC has reported that a baker in Whitstable, England is protesting the construction of a new cell phone tower claiming it will ruin her bread. Bakery owner Ingrid Greenfield suggests that the RF emissions from the antennas on the tower will "disrupt subtle forces which help make the loaves (of bread)." You see, Ms. Greenfield's bread is made without yeast. She instead uses "biodynamic" ingredients and it is "grown out of a spiritual understanding of nature."
When I was a kid I remember my mom telling me to be very quiet when she was baking bread. Otherwise, she warned, the bread would collapse and the loaves would be ruined. Thinking back I don't ever recall a loaf of bread collapsing in our house. I wonder if it was just a ploy to keep me quiet.
Likewise, it seems, Ms. Greenfield's claims are a ploy…only more sinister. Does anyone honestly believe that a cell phone antenna will have any effect on bread, cosmic or otherwise?
To be certain, I did some investigating of my own. I called the Dunkin' Donuts across the street from the WGN-AM radio tower in Elk Grove Village, IL. I'm confident Dunkin' Donuts doesn't us biodynamic ingredients, but they do make their donuts with a spiritual understanding of those who have an addiction to sugar.
The employee I spoke to said he managed two other Dunkin' Donuts in the greater Chicagoland area, too. He admitted he could not tell a difference between the donuts made in St. Charles, IL and those made across the street from WGN’s 50,000 watt blow-torch in the sky.
I wonder if Ms. Greenfield knows that a cell phone transmitter uses only 50 watts of power; 1,000 times less than the WGN tower. Ms. Greenfield, however, wasn't available for comment. Neither was the butcher or the candlestick maker.
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