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UCmeNdc

(9,589 posts)
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:19 PM Jun 2014

Fukushima Angry Japanese farmers say their animals are poisoned by radiation

Angry farmers from Fukushima brought a large cow to the center of Tokyo Friday to demand Japan's government investigate a disease they say cattle have developed since the nuclear disaster three years ago.

Operators of nonprofit "Kibo no Bokujo," or "Farm of Hope," delivered a full-size black cow to the front of the agriculture ministry to demand an investigation into why it and many other animals have developed white dots on their skin since reactors went into meltdown after the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011.

The farm is located only 14 kilometers (nine miles) from the nuclear plant and is keeping some 350 cows that were abandoned in the area when their owners had to evacuate because of radiation contamination.

"Our cows cannot be shipped as meat. They are evidence of lives affected by radiation," said Masami Yoshizawa, leader of the farm, in front of the ministry, as his supporters and media looked on.

Fellow Fukushima farmer Naoto Matsumura said: "What if this started happening to people? We have to examine the cause of this and let people know what happened to these animals."


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/22/angry-japanese-farmers-say-their-animals-are-poisoned-by-radiation/

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Fukushima Angry Japanese farmers say their animals are poisoned by radiation (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jun 2014 OP
K&R for more visibility. nt Mnemosyne Jun 2014 #1
I can't beieve the people of Japan have not realized what is happening to them. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2014 #2
I had a friend from Japan who broke off our friendship truedelphi Jun 2014 #3
Positive thinking and meditation? Curmudgeoness Jun 2014 #4
I have no idea if my friend is more susceptible to this type of truedelphi Jun 2014 #7
Oh god... Bonobo Jun 2014 #11
Well that did not get discussed in our conversation (The Sun God part) truedelphi Jun 2014 #13
"If you smile, radiation will not affect you" betsuni Jun 2014 #6
It was a strategy that I used from time to time in HS, when truedelphi Jun 2014 #8
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #5
An angry comment fromsomeone named sickputer: truedelphi Jun 2014 #9
Listen to this: betsuni Jun 2014 #10
Beach near Fukushima nuclear plant is a sliver of normalcy InfoWingerWatch Jun 2014 #12
That reminds me betsuni Jun 2014 #14

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
2. I can't beieve the people of Japan have not realized what is happening to them.
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 05:03 PM
Jun 2014

Surely by this point they know that their Gov and TEPCO have been lying their asses off.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
3. I had a friend from Japan who broke off our friendship
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 05:12 PM
Jun 2014

After an argument with him.

He went on at length at how some Ministry there had released "sound scientific findings" that thinking positive and being meditative was all a person needed to do to avoid the ill effects of the radiation.

So we argued.

Apparently there has been a full scale assault on the idea of beneficial "New Age-y Thinking" and how it can cure all.

I mean, I do think being positive and meditative can't hurt, and might even help, but there is only so much it will do if your body is absorbing massive amounts of radiation, through the air you breath, the water you drink, and the food you eat..

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
4. Positive thinking and meditation?
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 07:12 PM
Jun 2014

I am shocked that the people of Japan would fall for that. Were they informed that there was a nuclear reactor meltdown?

I'm at a loss for words.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
7. I have no idea if my friend is more susceptible to this type of
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 09:35 PM
Jun 2014

Thinking than others of that nation.

But as a culture, the Japanese are very much about conformity. Remember, they supported their emperor in his Dec 7th 1941 attack on the USA due to the fact that they accepted whatever the Emperor said was necessary to do without question, believing the emperor to be the direct representative of the Sun.

Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
11. Oh god...
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 10:15 PM
Jun 2014

"they accepted whatever the Emperor said was necessary to do without question, believing the emperor to be the direct representative of the Sun."

Wow, I can't imagine why your Japanese friend would have ended your "friendship".

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
13. Well that did not get discussed in our conversation (The Sun God part)
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 10:42 PM
Jun 2014

But I do think it is dangerous to believe that positive thinking is all we need to do in the face of a nuclear catastrophe. And we argued about that.

And BTW, the recent documentary, "White Light/Black Rain" about Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors lays out the same paradigm of until recently the Japanese worshiped their emperor.

betsuni

(25,135 posts)
6. "If you smile, radiation will not affect you"
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 09:35 PM
Jun 2014

But "If you don't smile, radiation will affect you." One Mr. Yamashita was responsible for this, it was quite the laughing stock. They tested it on animals, it's totally scientific! And if you feel safe, you will be safe. Oh, okay, let me turn off my brain so I can understand this. There, no thinking, mindlessly smiling, safe.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
8. It was a strategy that I used from time to time in HS, when
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 09:41 PM
Jun 2014

I had not done my homework and did not want the teacher to call on me. It seemed to work, probably as if you are smiling, then it seems to the teacher that you probably have done the work.

But I would not want to utilize the strategy for warding off radiation!

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
9. An angry comment fromsomeone named sickputer:
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 10:05 PM
Jun 2014


This is a milestone news thread…we get an opinion in the press that Fukushima NPP spread far more radiation than Chernobyl. Many nucleoapes in the mainstream media who promoted the 10% of Chernobyl figure for so long now are revealed for the asswipes they really are.

And that is putting it mildly because we know Fukushima has 6 reactors and 4 are in seriously degraded condition, the megaplex contains 10 times the fuel of 1986 Chernobyl, the fuel is more dangerous with massive amounts of plutonium, and more importantly it is still out of control and gushing after 1200 days (versus the 11 days of Chernobyl). They can pull all their spin tricks at will like trading 5 hardened terrorist criminals for a foot soldier (a one-to-one trade offer seemed fair to me). When news from WIPP or Hanford, or Fukushima gets really bad, BB just ramps up the distractions. Get ready for more battle in the Middle East, our government rarely tires of sending in troops to act as the world's police force.

I don't ever get mad at any posts here, whether off-topic or squabbling. There is only one place my resolve is focused on and that is the nucleoapes. Everything else that is toxic in our world pales to their Doomsday Machines. Their loss of compassion is superseded by their loss of the human survival instinct. Subhumans who lost their way over 70 years ago yet reign as leaders in the major civilized countries. 10,000 years of human evolution has been sabotaged.

betsuni

(25,135 posts)
10. Listen to this:
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 10:12 PM
Jun 2014

The other day the governor of Fukushima said he wants the torch relay in the 2020 Olympics to use the highway that passes about 2 kilometers from the nuclear plant. Great idea! Typical.

 

InfoWingerWatch

(78 posts)
12. Beach near Fukushima nuclear plant is a sliver of normalcy
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 10:15 PM
Jun 2014
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"July 22, 2013 Masumi Shiota 22 and Izumi Seya 21 relax in Nakoso Beach. Their parents, concerned about radiation exposure, told them not to spend too much time in the water. Noriko Hayashi/For The Washington Post"

BY CHICO HARLAN July 31, 2013
IWAKI, Japan — Every day, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., a part-time worker at one of Fukushima’s most well-known beaches walks toward the shoreline and lowers a dosimeter to the water. The device measures radiation, and its readings this summer have delivered the best news that one can hope for 40 miles south of a still-leaking nuclear plant:

The levels are normal.

Nearly 21 / 2 years after a series of meltdowns at the coastal atomic plant, normalcy has become the Fukushima prefecture’s scarcest commodity, and those who live here cherish it — or anything approaching it — in whatever form they can find. Local officials describe Nakoso Beach as a symbol of recovery, its seasonal opening day two weeks ago feted with hula dancers and hopeful speeches. But the officials acknowledge that Fukushima’s recovery is tenuous, and only by the standards of a traumatized region does Nakoso Beach feel normal.

At Nakoso, beachgoers are greeted by two signs: one advertising Fukushima’s sunshine, the other announcing the water’s latest radiation levels. The lone surfer on a recent Monday — a chiseled 38-year-old — spends his workdays blasting radioactive contamination from residential rooftops. The 56-year-old who handles the dosimeter is a former fisherman, put out of his job by a regional fishing ban on 41 species. Occasionally he still takes his boat 20 miles offshore and trawls the ocean floor for tsunami debris.


betsuni

(25,135 posts)
14. That reminds me
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 10:48 PM
Jun 2014

Must've been only about four and half months after the nuclear accident. Ocean swimming in the Tokyo/Chiba and northern areas was being discussed by foreign women in Japan on a forum. One was pregnant, wanted to go swimming, and found encouragement from the same optimists who think smiling keeps the radiation from harming you. What could possibly happen, they said. Yes, she agreed, she had gone swimming in the Gulf of Mexico after oil spills and was perfectly fine.

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