  We entertain the idea that a suitable background of cold (very low momentum)
pseudoscalar particles or condensate, may trigger a background that effectively
generates Lorentz-invariance violation. This aether-like background induces a
Chern-Simons modification of QED. Physics is different in different frames and,
in the rest frame of the pseudoscalar background, high momentum photons can
decay into pairs. The threshold for such decay depends quadratically on the
rest mass of the particles. This mechanism could explain in a natural way why
antiprotons are absent in recent cosmic ray measurements. A similar signal
could be used as a probe of pseudoscalar condensation in heavy ion collisions.
