Published: May 30th, 2012 at 2:13 am ET
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Radioactive Tuna Raises Concerns in Southern California
KMIR Palm Springs
By Angela Monroe
May 30, 2012
After several radioactive Bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific Ocean and ended up off the southern coast of California, many here in the valley are worried about the safety of our seafood.
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“Really shocked that that could even happen, it’s quite scary,” said Palm Desert resident, Sabine Skelton.
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Fisherman’s Market and Grill Restaurants CEO Louis Pagano [...] has worked in the fish industry all his life, and has some advice for seafood lovers.
“I’d be careful, stay away Blue Fin tuna for the time being, and at that point I don’t see any hazards in any of the other open ocean large swordfish, salmon, sea bass,” said Pagano.
Some people worry the radiation could get worse before it gets better.
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Over a year, later the impacts of the Fukushima meltdown are still swimming towards us.
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Published: May 30th, 2012 at 2:13 am ET
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maybe people will wake up now it's hitting the 1st world food chain
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replace many by a few, and ur back in reality ..
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First the cesium was in the tuna, but I said nothing because I did not eat tuna
Then the cesium was in the milk, but I said nothing because I drink tea
Next the cesium was in the beef, but I said nothing because I am a vegetarian
Then the cesium was in the vegetables, but by then there was no one left to tell
Rev. Martin Niemoller
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A++
Jet streams, ocean currents, debris tracking and other current rad monitoring links. Also, duck and cover radiation remediation protocols
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/board,24.0.html
Video updates at nuclear news now
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/nnn.html
My favorite links these days…
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
Aloha, all
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Could tuna end up being like boars in Germany?
Radioactive Boars And Deer Unfit To Eat 950 Miles From Chernobyl; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/radioactive-boars-and-deer-unfit-to-eat.html
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Fukushima; Pacific Ocean Catastrophe Confirmed; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-pacific-ocean-catastrophe.html
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So stupid!
> Worry that radiation could get worse before it gets better
This is a central lie of our society:
"It will get worse before it gets better."
The show must go on…
h.
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if it gets worse, it wont get better.
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it's getting worse
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For the next 250,000 years.
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And, how can it possibly get better?
Here's how:
We end up with something like 7 meltdowns instead of 8 or 9 of them.
But, all seven will emit low levels – completely safe (ICRP Mickey Mouse Model).
Gradual Death Syndrome (GDS) sets in (ECRR Reality Model).
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"… I don’t see any hazards in any of the other open ocean large swordfish, salmon, sea bass"
How stupid is that statement? is it only tuna who live on radiation-loaded prey? downplay, downplay, minimize…
ARE people stupid enough to believe this?
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It seems the current spin is bluefin tuna is the only fish that migrated up until now (yeah right). But weren't those fish samples from last year?
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So next year they'll warn you about what happened this year. And after you're dead, they warn you about what did it.
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ur saying one morning I'll wake up dead from all this?
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Yup.
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Agree BreadAndButter, it's downplay, downplay, minimize…
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The person quoted (Louis Pagano) runs a restaurant chain. Their menu does not include bluefin tuna, but does include those other species. Hence his spin:
http://www.fishermans.com/menu.php
Included on his menu is the highly controversial orange roughie:
http://www.mar-eco.no/learning-zone/backgrounders/deepsea_life_forms/orange_roughy_story
My take-away: he saw a chance to make a buck from the tuna story and/or do some damage control to make sure people didn't stop eating at his restaurants because of the scare.
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+ nice find
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I think heavily contaminated fishes will be the bottom-feeder and filter-feeding species.
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Once plankton is contaminated, everything gets contaminated.
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For the most part, yes.
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In all honesty, these types of fish are bad enough because of the environmental pollutants they carry being so far up the food chain! Mercury and PCB's etc! I remember a warning on RTE News about 6 years ago about the dangers for pregnant women eating Tuna, Swordfish, shark and any other fish at the top of the food chain but primarily in concern for the amount of mercury they contain!!! And if that wasn't bad enough they're now they're laced with radionuclides!! There is no limit to our senseless self-destruction!!!
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Grab your Omega's from other sources folks. Stop eating these poor suffering fish and let your supermarkets, shops etc know why and write to the pathetic authorities on this matter!!!! But above all, let your friends and family know why!!!
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101% YES! Hemp Seed Oil, Flax Seed Oil, or even better a full-spectrum Omega blend. Also much less heavy metals (hopefully none), and tastes great. Ever tried Almond Yoghurt w. Hemp Seed Oil? THAT's gourmet, NOT thuna …..
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Mmmmh, sounds great. Will try! Thanks!
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+
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Hemp oil is incredible. So are hemp hearts.
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If the ground gets contaminated, which it already has, won't all plants that grow upon the land be contaminated?
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tell them we won't eat this tune, do this poll on ktla.com…..
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-radioactive-tuna,0,4824630.story
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i mean tuna, sorry
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"Tune" is perfect!!
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Headline infers that Pagano is making the statement "Some people worry the radiation could get worse before it gets better." He didn't. This was editorial commentary on the part of the article's author (Angela Monroe).
"Humans aren't known for doing a real great job with stuff like this, and we kind of think the ocean is vast and it doesn't matter what we do to it," (Palm Desert resident – Tex Toltschin), is a more relevant statement. When it comes to long-lived exotic-toxins, we obviously don't know what we're doing…
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In regards to Mungo's link……http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-radioactive-tuna,0,4824630.story "Bluefin tuna typically have low levels of naturally occurring radioactive material, such as potassium 40". I didn't know Tuna ate bananas!!!!! Or took international flights!!!!!
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that's what happens when u fly 1st class
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vicariously for the BFT is say: THANK YOU!
(how sick it needs a handful of jap nuke plants blow up so people stop biting into cans with fish ..)
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correction Lee Binder. These were American designed (GE 1960-1970 vintage) power plants, located (imposed via post-war collusion) onto the 'Japanese' people. And while we're about corrections, do your position a solid, by avoiding deprecating terminology…
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Going on 15 months of feed and bleed R1-3…
… Not one settled down yet.
The next 15 months will bring?
And then the next 15 months?
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What drivel. Radiation does NOT 'get better'. once you have internal exposure, the timer is running.
And no one should eat bluefin tuna anyway. They are nearly extinct. Not that it matters any more.
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Low/High Internal/External Effects of Man-Made Radiation on Humans
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php?topic=152.0
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Spin: You won't get sick from it because Americans don't eat much of it anyway, and besides, it's expensive.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/30/radioactive-tuna-won-t-kill-you-but-should-we-be-concerned-about-mercury.html
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You want to know what I think is going thru the Japanese minds? Payback is a bitch…..
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I think it's so out of wack the way these reporters say " the tuna swam alllll the way from Japan…don't they do that every year…for like thousands of years???
And this report….even after a year the fish are contaminated…..
this is just the infancy of what radioactive contamination is….we are talking millions of years…I find this thinking absurd given the situation….
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Exactly
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I stopped eating sea food since the Gulf Disaster.
This radiation is in other foods.
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I broke down and got fish & chips yesterday. And my friend needed sushi a week ago for lunch… and I had some. Weird to feel guilty about food choices these days. So I try not to, I need to keep listening to my body.
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Anthony
It's hard not to eat fresh sea food.
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There has been a real storm on Twitter about the tuna. I find it surprising and significant that there was no such storm about the supposedly, and very dead, irradiated pinnipeds. Perhaps it's because pinnipeds aren't food.
I was also surprised to to see no such storm about running-races for little kids in the Irradiated Zones.
Perhaps food strikes a bigger chord with more people.
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Yeah, I see people all over Rod Adams/Atomicrod in Tweets. Quite a sight to see.
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Monsanto has learned about the power of food control…
Funny how no one pays attention until it hits the dinner plate. I'm guilty of it too. The difference is the moment this happened I sought out information. I have shared this with everyone who will talk to me lol. I don't really know what to think anymore. It's like Tepgov wants everyone to die slow. The U.S. is just as guilty. @#$%!
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I dont what to think either stopnp. Since the fish tested were born about a year before the disaster, I cant begin to imagine what this year’s fish are going to be. And that's not including everything else in the food chain.
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Thanks Whoopie, I got him a few times too, but your one little statement made my morning.
Here he is being annoying at an NRC meeting:
Rod Adams comment at NRC public meeting for draft EIS of WS Lee Nuclear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEsJvEyGU7Q
…telling us that "not one single person has been killed by a nuclear power plant in the U.S."
U.S. Nuclear Accidents (and deaths)
http://www.lutins.org/nukes.html
"In Dauphin County, where the Three Mile Island plant is located, the 1979 death rate among infants under one year represented a 28 percent increase over that of 1978, and among infants under one month, the death rate increased by 54 percent."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident_health_effects
He peppers many of his statements with "clean" and "green" and scoffs at solar power.
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Seems as if the thoughts of glowing shushi have woken up the slumbering people from the twilight zone of the droning mass media.
Perhaps a window of opportunity has opened to get out the radiation disaster while their ears are still open.
A chance to keep hope alive in the face of the blackness of the rising tide or disinformation.
Shine the light of truth before the headlines of massive death sweep us all under the carpet….
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hmm let me think of a reason to not trust the energy companies and thier friends
i hope admin wont mind me putting this EDF antiadvert here
??
due to recent events of a major reactor release that prooves that nuclear power plant fallout in the case of an emergency travels further than the existing projections say.. ie norways fears of sellafield blowing its stack
"The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority has just published a report on a hypothetical accident at Sellafield in England, which concludes that if only 1% of the liquid radioactive waste stored at the plant is released to air, the radioactive fallout in Western Norway could be five times higher than in the areas of Norway that were worst affected by the Chernobyl accident…"
scratch "five times" and put at least twenty.. ouch!
from here
http://www.norway.org.uk/News_and_events/Current-Affairs/sellafield/
and then there is this
A RADIOACTIVE THANK YOU TO EDF FROM LONDON !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxaLOc64CfI
lol! at least watch the last minute…
and why is EDF in my bad books??
most of the bottom of the thread (weve been busy)
http://enenews.com/forum-post-radiation-monitoring-data-april-30-2012-present
@admin please dont renew the rad thread for a little while as the link might not work..
my job here is done … off for a rad check round london to find out what edf are up to??
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Read that last quote, again. Like most of the so-called "experts", he talks as if it's OVER! Of course, we all know this gift keeps on giving, 24 hours a day. Tepco pours millions of gallons into these very radioactive fuel pools, reactor vessels and into the holes the corium has made under the buildings and has no idea where it goes. We know where it goes…INTO THE SEA!…Duhhh. So, his whole suggestion to temporarily stop buying one species of Pacific tuna is nonsense. No, I'm very sorry for the fishermen and the industries they feed, but we must close down the Pacific food source for longer than my lifetime….OR, until the government bureaucrats at the FDA, EPA, NRC and Homeland Gestapo start MONITORING everything coming out of the sea and REPORTING IT TO US, not keeping contamination a secret to protect someone's money trough.
How stupid it all is…just disgusting.
I'm surprised the Stanford boat wasn't sunk before it got to port…..Karen Silkwood style.
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It looks like ol' Malthus was right after all, doesn't it?
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Indeed Sir, ol 'Malthus and ol' Huxley, and ol 'Darwin, were great twisted bastards that justification for theft, plunder, and eugenics of the powerful new wave of bourgeois exploiters, who had already gained ground in the old church and aristocracy devised a comprehensive ideology of pseudoscientific nonsense that smelled like shit, and still smelling. The sophistry used, such as The Banquet of Life, The Survival of the fittest, etc …, are still in the collective imagination as scientific certainties. All that garbage gave way to pseudo-fascist ideology to justify.
Survival is based on mutual aid, and two animals from splitting the horns, it has nothing to do with how evolution works, dear.
Even bacteria are smarter than ol … So here we are in part due to the weeds, which largely began to plant all that rabble.
The promoters of nuclear energy and military, they find comfort in that the strongest and such is its pseudo-ideology justifying the killing.
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