The convenience of using a microwave instead of a  conventional oven is easy to see. Being able to cook a meal in a matter of  minute’s means less hassle and work in the kitchen. This has led to roughly 90%  of households in the US using microwaves for meal preparation. In fact nowadays  very few homes or restaurants are without them. The big question is are they  safe? Most people are of the opinion that anything that has not been tested for  safety would not be allowed on the market. But the fact that the likes of  aspartame and Sodium fluoride have been allowed tells us that this is not true.  It is clear that our government has sold its soul to the big corporations and  are more interested in lining their own pockets than the welfare of the American  people.

It is a sad fact nowadays that the only way you can guarantee if something is  safe is to check it out for yourself. The great thing about the internet is that  it makes this relatively simple to do. While there is a lot of bad information  on the net this can be avoided by using reliable sites like NaturalNews and  Infowars. These are two sites that I rely heavily on for getting information for  my articles. Both sites provide links in their articles so that you can check  the source of their information and make  up your own minds.

As to the question whether microwave ovens are safe this is what I have found  out. An experiment conducted at home for a high school  science fair five years ago gives us some insight as to the safety  of these microwaves. This experiment showed microwaved water given to a plant  causes the plant to wither and die within days. While an identical plant given  water which was boiled on a conventional stove grew normally during the same  time period.

This piece of information alone would be enough to convince me not to use a  microwave, but I know that most will need more convincing so lets look at what  else I found out.

An article on NaturalNews by Paul Fassa had this  to say

Unbiased research has produced evidence that eating microwaved food is an  invitation for cancer. Those research results are usually banned or overturned  and ignored for the sake of business as usual for the microwave oven manufacturers. After all,  the masses of convenience oriented consumers have created quite a lucrative  demand.

Early warnings against microwaving mostly involved warming baby’s formula or stored  mother’s breast milk. In 1992, Stanford research discovered that microwaving  formula at low heat destroyed most of the nutrients. Furthermore, the  researchers were shocked to find that over 90% of the diseases protecting agents  in mother’s breast milk were eliminated by microwave warming.

Serious claims and some strong evidence. This subject requires much more attention and publicising!

David’s article continued here.  (More evidence, references and related links).