Let them eat rice ... Fukushima rice

[Taro Toporific]

[SIZE="2"] Seniors urged to eat Fukushima rice to help farmers, protect young people[/SIZE]
The Japan Times | Tuesday, March 20, 2012
A Tokyo senior is waging an individual effort to get elderly people to eat rice grown in Fukushima Prefecture to help local farmers struggling with rumors that their crops are radioactive, and to make sure the grain isn't consumed by more vulnerable younger generations...more...

[cstaylor]

What a genius. Cesium biological half-life < radioactive half-life, so now we'll be polluting our local waste water with cesium.

:wall::wall:

[IparryU]

i cant understand why the govt doesn't step in and order a halt on production in that area...

a simple "in this area is a no no... and if you do then blah blah will happen"

but no... let people stay in the no-go-zone and allow production in a radioactive area...

yar

TIJ

[matsuki]

i cant understand why the govt doesn't step in and order a halt on production in that area...

a simple "in this area is a no no... and if you do then blah blah will happen"

but no... let people stay in the no-go-zone and allow production in a radioactive area...

yar

TIJ

Can't force them to stop production but they should be able to stop them from selling it.....though TIJ and the amount of teeth sucking that would ensue as a result of that action would make every dog in Japan deaf in seconds.

[Iraira]

So, the government is saying that the old folks should throw themselves on the radioactive hand grenade rice to save the children. Might also cut into the social security payouts. Not many pensioners will live to be 125 years old, if they start eating glow-in-the-dark rice at 75.

[plaid_knight]

There are no words.

[Coligny]

STOP, this is gonna fuck up real good any hopes for Soylent Green production...

(Funny how they manage to make this movie look like bunny farts compare to what's really happening... It has been a constant trend for the last 20 years for me... first a scary movie... then shit got real and everybody call it a day like if it was business as usual...)

[Coligny]

There are no words.

I can see 2 that could help for good:

AGENT ORANGE

Greji, did'ya got some budy with leftover ?

[Russell]

The MaxValue supermarket near here sells precooked rice ... from Fukushima.

That would not be so bad in itself if they also sold precooked rice from elsewhere. But no, there is only precooked rice from Fukushima, Fukushima, and Fukushima... That evening my family ate potatoes.

[dimwit]

So, the government is saying that the old folks should throw themselves on the radioactive hand grenade rice to save the children. Might also cut into the social security payouts.

And they can claim all of the geezers cash thru the inheritence taxes. Call it a winning a double header.

[Russell]

What's next?!?

Feeding whale meat to the old geezers, so that the kids don't get it served for school lunch?

Where can I buy myself a whale?

[dimwit]

What's next?!?

Hell, it's only ten years away.

[FG Lurker]

That evening my family ate potatoes.

...that were grown where? Lots of potatoes on the market from northern Japan.

[Coligny]

...that were grown where? Lots of potatoes on the market from northern Japan.

Hokkaido seems sorta safe...

[Samurai_Jerk]

What's next?!?

Feeding whale meat to the old geezers, so that the kids don't get it served for school lunch?

Don't you know the mercury in the whale meat and cesium in the rice cancel each other out?

[FG Lurker]

Hokkaido seems sorta safe...

Apparently that depends on where in Hokkaido. Wife won't buy Hokkaido potatoes anymore, only Awaji or somewhere further west.

[cstaylor]

Apparently that depends on where in Hokkaido. Wife won't buy Hokkaido potatoes anymore, only Awaji or somewhere further west.

1 year down, 29 to go.

[FG Lurker]

1 year down, 29 to go.

...until half of it is gone.

[cstaylor]

...until half of it is gone.

... and we're old enough that cancer is the least of our problems.

[FG Lurker]

... and we're old enough that cancer is the least of our problems.

Yeah, but our kids won't be.

[cstaylor]

Yeah, but our kids won't be.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to FG Lurker again.

[Big Booger]

I'll be ricing it in Fukushima soon! Back to Japan I go!

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[quote="Big Booger"]I'll be ricing it in Fukushima soon! ]

Wow! Great to see you back...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Wow! Great to see you back...

I had the opposite reaction.

[Taro Toporific]

Fukushima rice above threshold for cesium
The Japan Times | Oct. 25, 2012
FUKUSHIMA --- Rice grown by a farmer in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, returned a radioactive cesium reading of 110 becquerels per kilogram, exceeding the maximum of 100, the prefectural government announced...more...

[Coligny]

They really are working hard to make this clusterfuck raise to 11...

Bad luck they didn't spend 1/10000th of that energy trying to properly inspect Tepco's installation and safety protocol...

[matsuki]

Not to mention this was all the buzz in the US when I was there last week....

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012 ... brown-rice

http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/Consume ... 319827.htm

...and that led to this:

Seafood is the most significant source of arsenic in food, according to the World Health Organization. That's why the Japanese daily arsenic intake is more than double that of Americans.

http://news.yahoo.com/please-pass-arsen ... 00727.html

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Seafood is the most significant source of arsenic in food, according to the World Health Organization. That's why the Japanese daily arsenic intake is more than double that of Americans.

I could raise it even higher if I could get my hands on some of that shite...

[matsuki]

Seafood is the most significant source of arsenic in food, according to the World Health Organization. That's why the Japanese daily arsenic intake is more than double that of Americans.

I could raise it even higher if I could get my hands on some of that shite...

You should probably just push them off the balcony...despite all the measuring the cops will do, we all know it'll be ruled "suicide - regret that she married a foreigner"

[Russell]

Farmers resume planting rice near crippled Fukushima site

Farmers have resumed planting rice for market only 15 kilometers from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

It was the first time since the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster that farmers have gone inside the former 20-kilometer “no-go” zone around the doomed plant to sow rice intended for sale.

The zone has been redefined to let people access areas where the levels of radiation from the plant have been relatively low. Tens of thousands of people remain unable to return to their homes.

On May 18, three farmers started planting rice seedlings in paddies over an area of six hectares in the city of Tamura, a Fukushima regional agriculture official said.

“The work has progressed smoothly as the weather recovered,” Tsuneaki Onami told AFP by telephone.

The rice paddies are located in Miyakoji district where a few dozen farmers used to live before they were evacuated after the devastating quake and tsunami left the plant spewing radiation from its molten reactors.

Since April last year, former residents have been permitted to re-enter the district during the daytime—they are not allowed to stay there overnight.

“We have considerably decontaminated the rice paddies and channelled water for irrigation there,” Onami said, adding that they still have to fight “harmful rumours” about their produce.

The farmers are using fertilizer containing potassium to help curb radioactive cesium absorption by rice plants. All rice from the paddies will be checked for radioactive contamination before being shipped, said Onami.