– Fukushima Rice All Cleared for Shipment, Radioactive or Not (EX-SKF, Oct. 12, 2011):
because in the “main” test administered by the Fukushima prefectural government, none exceeded the stringent national provisional safety limit of 500 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium.
The highest was from a district in Nihonmatsu City, 470 becquerels/kg (page 9 of the linked PDF file). But not to worry, rice farmers of the particular district. The Fukushima prefectural government will buy up all your rice, according to Kyodo News English (10/12/2011), probably using the money from the national government (i.e. nation’s taxpayers’ money).
It’s a win-win for Fukushima rice farmers who went ahead and grew rice. If tested for less than 500 becquerels/kg of cesium, they are all set to sell. If tested close to 500 becquerels/kg, the government will buy the crop. No information on what the prefecture is going to do with the rice it buys up, but I suspect it will find its way to the market eventually. It’s a lose-lose for a minority of conscientious farmers in Fukushima who chose not to grow at all this year – no sales, no compensation. Good luck, consumers, finding radiation-free rice and fighting critics who tell you that you are selfish on insisting on clean food.
In the meantime, a tweet from a farmer in Iitate-mura who evacuated from the village says:
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Diary of my temporary return to Iitate-mura in early October: The result of the radiation test for the rice came in. Surprise, surprise. 2,194 becquerels/kg [of radioactive cesium] in brown rice, more than 4 times the provisional safety limit. Since it was so high I arranged for the re-testing, just in case. As to the rice crop in the rice paddy, it has to be mowed down by the end of this week. So the new crop of rice will be feeding the wild boars.
He had said in his earlier tweets that when he had to leave the village in spring, he sprinkled the seed rice on his rice paddy and let the nature take its course instead of throwing it away. To his great surprise, the rice thus sowed directly (as opposed to planting carefully cultivated seedlings) and grown without any fertilizer or pesticide and without any tilling grew better than ever. He duly noted the irony, but also now says, “If I ever grow rice again, I will do the direct sowing and do none of the maintenance work. The traditional way of growing rice by planting seedlings, using fertilizer and pesticide, tilling, weeding and other constant care is nothing but a conspiracy by the agribusiness and JA (agricultural producer co-op).”
Way to go, farmer A1271. I hope you can get to grow crops again somewhere cleaner.
More info:
– Fukushima Journalist Takes On TEPCO
– Prof. Hirotada Ohashi, One Of The ‘Plutonium Brothers’, Was A TEPCO Employee!
– NHK Caught Manipulating Truth About Radiation Danger Again
– High Radiation Dose Readings Marked In Spots In Tokyo, Chiba
– How Kindergartens and Elementary Schools Enjoy Radioactive Autumn in Japan!
– TEPCO Uses Low-Level Radioactive Water To Spray Fukushima Nuclear Compound
– 300,000 Bq/m² of Radioactive Cesium at Okutama Region Where Tokyo’s Drinking Water Comes From
– Tokyo Tap Water In Crisis, Comes From Chernobyl-Like Contaminated Area (100,000 – 300,000 Bq/m2):
However, Okutama area, where Tokyo tap water comes is as dangerous as “contaminated area” in Chernobyl.
According to the data above, 100,000 ~ 300,000 Bq/m2 was measured in Okutama area.
– Casualties Mount in Japanese Radiation War – Fukushima on Facebook
– Osaka: Fukushima Made Bridge Girders Read 700 Microsieverts
– Senior Fukushima Nuclear Engineer: ‘It’s Endless, Endless’ – ‘The Task Will Never End’
– Incinerator Near Tokyo Shut Down, High Levels Of Radioactive Cesium Detected In Ash
– CRIMINALS OF THE WORST KIND: Japanese Government Will No Longer Measure PLUTONIUM (The Deadliest Substance On The Planet)!!!
– Japan: New Government Maps Show Wide Dispersion of Plutonium and Strontium
– Whistleblower Prof. Kenichi Matsumoto: Japan’s PM ‘Isolated, Out Of His Depth’ (Video)
– Tokyo To Burn Massive Amounts Of Radioactive Debris From Tohoku
– Japanese PM Considered EVACUATION of Tokyo (ABC News)
– Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki As Residents Flee
– Fukushima Evacuation-Ready Zone To Be Abolished On Sep. 30, 2011
– Radioactive Train In Tokyo Metropolitan Area: Over 10 Microsievert/Hour Inside Train (Video)
– 105,600 Bq/Kg of Radioactive Cesium Found On Apartment Bldg Rooftop in Yokohama City
– BBC Fukushima Propaganda Debunked (Video)
– Fairewinds: Safety Problems In All (Mark I) Reactors Designed Like Fukushima – Introducing A Japanese Language Edition
– Tokyo: 60,000 Rally Against Nukes
– Japanese Government To Send Seafood, Goods Made in Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate As AID To Developing Nations
– Radioactive Japan: 42,000 Bq/Kg Cesium In Dirt In Yokohama City
– Japan To Promote Use Of Potentially Radioactive Lumber With ‘Eco-Point’ Incentive
– Japan: Area Of More Than 8,000 Square Km Accumulated Cesium-137 Levels Of 30,000 Bec/Sq Meter
– Huge Amounts Of Neptunium 239 Detected 60 Km From Fukushima!!!
– Prof. Chris Busby On Children Suffering Heart Attacks In Fukushima
– Geiger Counter Measures 0.378 Microsieverts In Tokyo Train Station 1 Meter Above Ground!!!
– Japan ‘Misstated’ Radiation … ‘And So Exposed People Unnecessarily’ (WSJ)
– Fukushima Nuclear Plant Back Into Recriticality
– Fukushima: Radioactive Release Into Sea Estimated Triple
– More Cover-Ups: TEPCO’s Extreme Blackout (Submits Almost Entirely Redacted Documents – Video)
– Former Japan PM Kan: TEPCO Wanted To Abandon Fukushima! … ‘NOBODY MIGHT LIVE IN TOKYO NOW’
– Mystery Flash At Fukushima Nuclear Plant (Video – Sep. 5, 2011)
– 4 Above Limit Radioactive Cesium Tea Products Reach Market
– 28,000 Becquerels/Kg Of Radioactive Cesium In Wild Mushrooms in Fukushima
– Fukushima Released 76 TRILLION Bequerels Of Plutonium 239
– DOOMED: Japan Gov. To Allow All RADIOACTIVE Material To Be Burned And Buried
– Fukushima Cesium-137 Leaks ‘Equal 168 Hiroshimas’
Fukushima City should have been evacuated a long time ago:
– Japanese Government To Finally Admit Forced Indefinite Long-Term Depopulation Of Fukushima Communities
– Fukushima Now Equal To 50 Plus Chernobyls & 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses Of Radiation
How about Tokyo?
– ‘Severely Contaminated Hotspots’ Found In Tokyo
Here is what the Japanese and all the other elite puppet governments are really doing here:
TREASON! GENOCIDE! RADIATION EXPERIMENTS!
Watch these Japanese officials just walk away from begging Fukushima citizens:
– This Is Outrageous: Japanese Government Killing Its Own People In Fukushima (Video)
The Japanese people are used as guinea pigs:
– Wall Street Journal: How the Japanese Government Failed Residents of Namie, Fukushima
– Japan’s Nuclear Agency Hides Children Radiation Results
– AND NOW: Japanese Government Sets 100 Millisieverts As New Lifetime Standard
… these are not “dosimeters” but “glass badges” that passively collect radiation information. It won’t help these children or their parents to avoid high-radiation areas and spots, it won’t tell them how much radiation they will have been exposed unless they are sent in to a company to interpret the data.
This is outrageous and it is called mind-control:
– AND NOW … Meet The 3 Japanese Scientists That Say: ‘Plutonium is Not That Dangerous’ (Video)
There are no safe levels of radiation:
– Prof. Karl Grossman: ‘Radiation Hormesis An Incredible Lie’
– Japanese Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation: ‘I Just Cannot Feel Any Hope For Japan’s Future’
– IAEA Admits: There Is No Such Thing As ‘Safe’ Levels Of Radiation
– Dr. Helen Caldicott On The Japan Nuclear Disaster – The Truth MSM Won’t Tell You! (Video)
– Dr. Helen Caldicott: How Nuclear Apologists Mislead The World Over Radiation
– Dr. Brian Moench: There Is No ‘Safe’ Exposure To Radiation
– Are There Safe Levels of Radiation? How Much Radiation Is Safe? (Must-read!!!!!)
Radiation exposure is increased by a factor of a trillion. Inhaling even the tiniest particle, that’s the danger.
Yo: So making comparisons with X-rays and CT scans has no meaning. Because you can breathe in radioactive material.
Hirose: That’s right. When it enters your body, there’s no telling where it will go. The biggest danger is women, especially pregnant women, and little children. Now they’re talking about iodine and cesium, but that’s only part of it, they’re not using the proper detection instruments. What they call monitoring means only measuring the amount of radiation in the air. Their instruments don’t eat. What they measure has no connection with the amount of radioactive material.
Dr. Helen Caldicott (Co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility):
You’ve bought the propaganda from the nuclear industry. They say it’s low-level radiation. That’s absolute rubbish. If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it’s an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that’s true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia. It’s imperative … that you understand internal emitters and radiation, and it’s not low level to the cells that are exposed. Radiobiology is imperative to understand these days.”
Bizarre:
Big Brother Japan:
Radiation is now everywhere:
– 27,000 Becquerels/Kg Found At Kindergarten Over 200 Miles From Fukushima Nuke Plant
– 4,000 Potentially Radioactive Cows Shipped from One Farm in Namie-Machi, Fukushima
– Japan Government To Lift Ban On Sales And Shipment Of Radioactive Fukushima Beef
– Fukushima: 186,000 Becquerels Per Kg Radioactive Cesium in Aizu Wakamatsu City
– Japan: Radioactive Beef Served in 296 Schools in 12 Prefectures
– Japan: Radioactive Compost Has Already Spread Wide
– Radioactive Fukushima Eggs: 60 Becquerels/Kg Cesium (Ukraine Safety Limit Is 6 Becquerels/Kg)
– And Now Over 2,600 Meat Cows Suspected Of Being Fed With Radioactive Rice Hay!
– And Now: Government To Survey Half Of Japan For Soil Contamination
– Radiation in Fukushima City Order of Magnitude Higher Than Official Numbers?