Mike Oxlong wrote:Food Safety Not an Issue: Beef contaminated with cesium sold at market
What's the penalty for this sort of willful endangerment? Let me guess...nothing.
It seems that the shit is much bigger than the fan can cope in one serving:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/beef-from-fukushima-to-be-tested.html
There were messages from parents who had their children carry their own lunches and water bottles to schools and kindergartens, and the schools denied their children to consume those homemade lunches and water.
The mayor of Yokohama and the Board of Education president answered the councilman in a meeting that they considered the food items used for school lunches "are safe, because they are sold in the market", and that they had instructed the school principals to answer the parents that way when they asked about the safety of school lunches.
Then, in early June, the City of Yokohama relented to mounting complaints from the parents and people like this councilman, announced that it would conduct sample testing of the food items for school lunches. At the same time, though, it announced that it would use food items from the disaster-affected areas (i.e. Fukushima) to show support.
Some parents went to ask their school principals and teachers. "Why aren't you doing something to find out if the food is safe?" Their answer? "Well, everyone's eating it."
In the meantime, schools started to prepare for swimming classes in their swimming pools, and not to waste pool water that had been in the pools, they used it to water the school gardens and yards, to the horror of parents who were called "monster parents" for worrying "too much" about radiation.
Then a bombshell.
On June 5, an insider leak to the coucilman from a concerned food stuff dealer. The dealer provided the unique identification numbers for the cows whose meat was used in Yokohama's school lunches.
They were all from Fukushima.
Seriously...
No surprise here... we already got this discussion aboot why the food supply should not be trusted in japan...