Published: September 6th, 2012 at 3:37 am ET
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Title: Young couple keeps farming alive in Fukushima Prefecture
Source: The Yomiuri Shimbun
Date: Sept 5, 2012
[...]When he visited his parents’ home in Soma [40 km north of Daiichi], Fukushima Prefecture, after the disaster, Shohei Kikuchi, 26, was distressed to see the city devastated by tsunami and people evacuated from their hometowns due to the crisis at the power plant.
Kikuchi felt he could not just let farming die in his hometown
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He said: “[I thought] if farmland is left unattended and fallow, this area will become underpopulated. Someone has to keep farming.”
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Some acquaintances were against his plans, saying groundless rumors of radiation contamination of Fukushima products would make it difficult to make a living farming there.
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He ships his lettuce and broccoli to supermarkets and farmers’ markets. Mihoko Murakami, 63, an acquaintance who buys his vegetables, said: “His vegetables are tasty and have a rich flavor. It’s difficult to farm in Fukushima, but the prefecture won’t be rebuilt without young people like Kikuchi.”
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Published: September 6th, 2012 at 3:37 am ET
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What can you do when tradition means more than safety?
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He'll reconsider his perspective when his thyroid shuts down.
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If you can't see it,taste it, smell it or feel it,it can't be that bad for you…Right!!
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DosDos – exactly. See to me this is one of those things he is doing, just because it is all he has ever known, and it was all sadly destroyed. And again with this tasty rich flavor thing – yeah we get it. I on the other hand wouldnt even want to be in the same room as any of those vegatables. Put them through a radiation analysis and even the under-reported results would be shocking. 40km North of FUKU is destroyed for hundreds of thousands of years. Sad but true – I dare you tell me Im wrong. Oh and if Im so wrong then go live there and find out for yourself how quickly your health will deteriorate. See its this misconception with radiation where you feel fine now, but 5-10 year from now – how you feelin? Oh wait what was that? You feel radioactive? Shocking…. not…
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He's a collaborator !!!!! oust HIM from that land,He's doing more damage than the Cesium -laced propaganda. 100 canes to the murdering collaborators!!!!
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The rich flavor of radiation.
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What a moron. And to think the government allows his produce to be sold on the open market. Japan is populated with ignorant imbeciles, so it seems.
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Who is the real moron? Japan, who allows this farmer to sell his Fukushima poisoned produce, or the Americans, who allow unlimited imports of Japanese food without testing for radiation? (Per Hiliary Clinton's signed post-Fuku trade agreement.)
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Our restaurants serve only the best quality foods; shrimp and clams from the Gulf of Mexico with that bit of oily taste from the BP Oil spill (put lots of hot sauce on it to eliminate the petrol smell). Tuna caught off the Western Pacific Coast, ignore please any information you may hear about the contamination. And we cannot live without sushi, of course, we may not have a healthy body after eating the toxins. And no doubt we are eating as though nothing dire has happened to cause illness and death as our air, soil, and water are subject to all manner of chemicals.
Does it matter if we are eating radioactive food imported from Japan when our meat and dairy products are full of hormones and antibiotics and then washed in bleach. Our vegetables grow from seeds that are Monsanto GMO with insecticides and the latest herbicides. Our waters are contaminated by fertilizers, prescription drugs, animal feces and most frightening the chemicals used in the "fracking process" to obtain natural gas from shale. Even storage of petroleum products and nuclear waste leaks into our aquifers and wells. The majority here do not want to be bothered with your scary messages, after all you are thousands of miles away and your people are eating and drinking the same produce.
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you are joking write?
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I think she is being sarcastic because so many toxins are being piled on so many levels. I don't think she's saying that mixed oxide fuel radioactivity is on the same level as hormones and commonly understood pesticides.
I absolutely agree that Monsanto and BP do long term damage for generations but combined MOX fuels means ugly, painful demises for thousands of years. Or more. This new generation of nanoscientists need to hurry things along now.
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Hi Norbu,
I was being sarcastic. The air, soil, water are all contaminated and continue to be so; however the toxins are everywhere. In the US, if a person changes the oil in his vehicle and does not dispose of it in an environmentally safe way…they are fined. BP Oil dumped crude oil and toxic chemicals, ruined an ecology and the culture of people that goes back generations as fishermen, caused illness and death…and nothing was done to them. Eleven men lost their lives when the Deep Horizon exploded and nobody was held accountable.
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so true
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As long as people are informed that it's radiofood, where is the problem?
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Homeboy has a LOT of free time to come up with this nonsense
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Atomfritz are you going to be okay when your taxes and health care fees become astronomical due to the state and federal government's caring for millions of people that willfully chose to poison themselves?
If you are okay with opening your wallet to this, and very possibly eating unmarked radioactive foods yourself due to the government's unfortunate habit of lying to people, then please take your death quietly and gracefully.
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damn bra good points. its almost as if fukushima food is no a delicasy now that its all radioactive. Maybe people think they're going to get super special super powers and shït.
nope. just cancer. lol at the ignorant and remorse for the naive…
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It reveals that radiated food is allowed to be shipped and sold.
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Natural selection works in mysterious ways doesn't it.
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'Natural selection' implies evolution. There's nothing beyond this point except 'lethal mutation'.
Thank God the people in charge are all eugenicists. Plenty of abortion money to go around. <sarc>
I wonder what it's like for them, to see their children look up at them, look them in the eye and say "Why did you kill me?"
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Time is short,YES eugenists Scums are pushing ,us, to the OVENS. a 1000 celsius or Kelvin or REMS , no difference ,here. let's make a film using that line" Why did you kill me" a powerful scene, whatcha think?
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It's always about the money. The government knows which farms are toxic, but they aren't going to pay any monetary reparations for loss of land or livelihood other than token amounts to a few farmers within spitting distance of Fukushima NPP.
This is the true cost of a massive nuclear accident, not the containment (still unaccomplished), and not the cleanup. It's the land poisoned beyond redemption and the ruined livelihoods of millions of citizens.
So when a government is broken, the people do whatever they can to survive, even if it involves selling radioactive crops. This happens every day in Belarus, 26 years after Chernobyl.
Big Brother is not going to stop someone 40 miles away from the plant from selling produce, just like they won't stop fish sales from the east coast. The government in Japan is physically and morally bankrupt. You know it, I know it, and the farmer who grows contaminated crops in Fukushima knows it.
All the farmers, and ranchers, and tourist attractions who use foreign students as propaganda dupes are not worried about cancer or a heart attack. They are worried about survival today.
Yes it is terrible contaminated food reaches unsuspecting consumers, but it is what is. You as the potential consumer must make your own choices to keep your family safe.
I can only tell you things everywhere will get worse before they get better (if possible). We live in Future Shock. This is your Brave New World.
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"Your produce alone has been worth the trip." Prot, from K-Pax.
A memorial inscription:
"The veggies were tasty and had a great flavor
but eating them did my body no favor.
Their contamination took me to my grave. Err
not on the side of pro-nuclear ravers."
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Aye, when I was a lad I ate some green vegies too, but you can’t use the run of from Hans Blix’s shower to make anything else other than wart remover, it be like golfing on jute.
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From Space and The Beyond
has Scotty returned
pointing out Hans Blix'
reputation is burned -
Advisor to Emirates' nuclear plans,
Blix no doubt golfs in greener lands.
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The Art of Deception: The Cult of Nuclearists, Uranium Weapons and Fraudulent Science; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/primer-in-art-of-deception-cult-of.html
IAEA, WHO, NRC And Others; A Web Of Deception? via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/iaea-who-and-others-web-of-deception.html
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