Japan Farmers Plant; Hope For Radiation Free Rice
Khaleej Times2012-05-28: Last year’s crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He’s living up to his family’s proud, six-generation history of rice farming, and praying that this time his harvest will not have too much radiation to sell. That conflict is shared by several thousand farmers in more than 7,000 hectares (17,000 acres) of Fukushima, where some of last year’s harvest exceeded government safety standards because of radiation released when the March 2011 tsunami set off the world’s second-worst nuclear accident. For their rice… more »
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My heart aches for the Japanese people in general. I hope the radiation will not pose a threat for them, but sadly, I suspect it will be a problem for years to come.
China continues to have disaster after disaster with poisoned food, clothes, toys, etc.. When will they wake up?
Well, China is a super power now, much to the cost of the poisoned environment. Still also a communist dictatorship, where many don’t dare to say their meaning!
Worst kind of combination capitalistic greed combined with communism.