Published: January 26th, 2012 at 6:21 pm ET
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Title: Fukushima’s animals abandoned and left to die
Source: CNN
Date: Jan 26, 2012
When you stand in the center of Japan’s exclusion zone, there is absolute silence. [...]
78,000 people were evacuated out of this area, believing they would return within a few days.
[...] thousands of people left with their dogs tied up in the backyard, cats in their houses and livestock penned in barns.
Nearly a year later, animal carcasses litter the region.
Cows and pigs starved to death, their bones still in pens. Dogs dropped dead with disease. A cat skull sits on a neighborhood road.
[...] animal rights activists call it an outrage.
“It’s shameful,” says Yasunori Hoso with United Kennel Club Japan. “We kept asking the government to rescue these animals from the beginning of the disaster [...]”
[...] dogs now reside at the UKC Japan shelter near Tokyo. 250 dogs and 100 cats, all from the exclusion zone [...]
Unfortunately, he added, the owners can’t live with their animals because they are homeless themselves.
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Published: January 26th, 2012 at 6:21 pm ET
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this is just sad…
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After reading a few sentences, I can’t even begin to watch this.
Too many members of the human race suck.
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i can’t make myself watch the video. i keep hovering over the play button, but i just cannot do it- what a wimp.
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You and me both.
To think our opposable thumbs have led us to creating a diabolical energy over which no one has control over.
I should have been born a platypus.
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As sad and shameful as this is..this is just a diversion..a human..or rather in this case an animal interest story.
Yes..there are people and animals homeless.
Now CNN… let’s talk about the conditions at Fukushima..and the lessons the NRC is learning….ETC.
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Animal interest and human interest have no place in the realm of nuclear interest.
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Don’t get so upset….humans are next.
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“…humans are next”
Good. The planet would be so much better with us, and yes, I include myself!
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Better WITHOUT us
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Animals (cattle) were injected with disinfectant — a very painful death per the man living in the evacuation zone. Would think Japanese would rather let livestock/animals live, so they could test/obtain radiation data. The herd shown in video, lovely black animals, were “eliminated” with injections per the farmer. Sure, the meat is not edible, but they are better “test” subject than humans..right? Or not…….
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Thats an absolutely evil way to euthanize an animal.
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Yes, that is disgusting.
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Hi Anthony. I agree with the sentiment of your post, but not the precise wording. “euthanize” is not the appropriate word for that practice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia
More appropriate terms might be: slaughter, murder, destroy, or kill.
Calling it euthanasia contributes to desensitizing the description of it.
I agree, of course, with your use of the word “evil”.
I imagine the bureaucrats who came up with the idea figured that it would help prevent the spread of bacteria in the carcasses – a bureaucratic “twofer” – self-cleaning slaughter.
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I say use this information as a method of introduction to those who can’t process the reality of Fukushima. So many people can feel empathy for animals but turn off the empathy for humans. If people saw a video or a movement to “save the pets of Fukushima” they would feel compelled to help and as a by product learn more about what is going on. Maybe they would think at some point, “What about the people, the children, the babies, what about me.”
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+100
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A 5.0 off the coast http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0007sab.php
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we must care about all beings on Earth, you are write, us humans are next, so we must care about all. Thank you ENENEWS
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Just wait till an American nuclear plant melts down in a densely populated area like Chicago or New York or …..
Horrors of incalculable magnitude will accompany these nuclear CATASTROPHES.
We are no better prepared, overall, than the Japanese were at our Nuclear plants.
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Containment failure on primary containment. Likely reactors 1 or 2. Massive gamma breach taking place… Open air fission and gammarays being detected by tepco’s lens.
http://mfile.akamai.com/127380/live/reflector:51361.asf
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Emmy, did you see it at 9:08, or 9:09?
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Watch the lower portion of the roofline between 9:08 and 9:14. What is that? Do you see the black line appearing and disappearing? I think that’s on Reactor 1.
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Hi TC-G,
I can’t get the file to launch. What’s the reference for the URL, so I can try to get it through another link? This is launching what looks like a recorded radio interview, but I cannot get it to play.
Thanks!
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OK, it’s going now.
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what are they doing with cranes and how can they be that close to doom?
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I respect you all but what are you seeing at 908-909? Can we see gamma with our eyes?
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I respect you all but what are you seeing at 908-909? Can we see gamma with our eyes? NORBO No we cannot see Gamma Rays with the human eye-BUT and folks pay attention…. We can see the effects of Gamma Radiation on the charged coupling device (CCD) used in the camera!! So yes we can see Gamma sort of… and it looks like really pissed off glowing multi-colored pancakes on SPEED
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This was streaks, flashes, white orbs, beams of light, snow, all rolled into one. You could sense (they) were coming in from one direction. They blew in on the wind. Then, they stopped.
They were radiation. No human power could ever change my mind,…it knows what it saw. Even when it doesn’t know EXACTLY what it is, it knows.
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Yes Jill u are correct it is radiation and the CCD part of the camera is heavily influenced by it and thats where all the visual noice cums from
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Speaking of Animal Carcasses: $735,000!!! for a Tuna–top of the food chain–caught of the NE Coast of Japan??? OMFG! Very annoying, considering that radionuclides are in extreme concentrations in the ocean in that part of the world with no diminishment, in reality, in sight. Remember that 80% of all U.S. sold canned tuna is caught in the same area, off the Tohoku coast!
The headline: Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., left, cuts a bluefin tuna in front of his Sushi Zanmai restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. The bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 56.49 million yen, or about $736,000, in the first auction of the year at the fish market. The tuna was caught off Oma in Aomori prefecture and just north of the coast that was battered by the March 11 tsunami. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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Thanks for that info, knew there was a good reason to stop eating fish besides the gulf oil spill.
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Wouldn’t mind if it is the rich bastard that bought it who eats it. Nothing is going to improve on this planet until the money-sucking parasites are eliminated. Bon apetite, human tapeworm. (no I don’t care that I am not being nice about it. In the end, it will be them or us. I vote for us.)
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Bravo, vivvi!
If you can afford that tuna, you’ve got waaaay more $ than you need.
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There may be some misunderstanding of how the tuna is used commercially. If you’re imagining somebody sitting down to eat a million dollar dinner… it’s not like that in the slightest.
A bluefin weighs about 1000 pounds. A portion served as sushi or sashimi weighs a few grams and costs a dollar or three, depending on quality, setting, and so forth.
http://www.bigmarinefish.com/bluefin.html
There are literally many thousands of servings in a single fish. It is not significantly more or less expensive than other protein sources, although it has become relatively rare because of overfishing, which tends to increase the price.
Overfishing and radiation issues are what matter, in my opinion, not the price – the price is what it is, and will not harm us.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN
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they blew in on the wind? In from where? It knows what you saw? I dont understand what you mean? I watched it 20 times saw nothing like that I have perfect vision.
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ARE people still eating fish from the PACIFIC OCEAN?
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http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDUQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2011%2F03%2F25%2Feating-sushi-from-japan_n_840749.html&ei=iRciT66wHIjXiAKakKWpBw&usg=AFQjCNGaonJIti5RVYd-HRdKh0oGEF7nfg&sig2=MTcOyBySy5KdbtO5y8ZSTQ
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RE: concerns about the safety of seafood, the article says concerns “may be” unfounded and high levels “might not be” a concern (or vice versa on the may be and may not be).
Weasel words that say nothing!
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Gentle crew…who remembers my comments on the rolling news story and the pet piece…thats your cue to stop caring about the nice folks in Japan, who don’t have the resources to just get up and leave, and care more about dead animals. Better yet blame the victim. Look I care animals but of all the stories CNN could have run with concerning Fuku they ran with this one.
Hell, they are even giving animal rights activists a platform. Why CNN that’s awful white of you.
THIS SONG’S FOR YOU CNN…an old favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfl43zmpSAk
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Yeoma –DERP
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Mikey
Yep!
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“Rescue the animals” Well first I would like to see them take care of the human’s, but ok I guess they’re all victims here. The pathetic thing is that the government treats it’s people just as well as that dead puppy. If you don’t bark the nuclear big dog is just going to take a dump on your corpse and forget you even existed.
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You don’t rescue contaminated animals. You shoot them.
Fuck you CNN.
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