http://elitedaily.com/news/world/br...cting-americans-and-theres-no-way-to-stop-it/ Article isn't written by a scientist or anything but the situation he's talking about is real.
Damn. I never thought the accident would be this bad. No meat or seafood? At least crawfish season is over.
I see the company's take in this as necessary for their fame and reputation. If they'd acknowledge the problem 2 years ago, then scientists would've slowed or possibly stop the leaking by now.
I would assume most of our fresh seafood around here is from the gulf. But that I do not know for sure. Anyone here familiar with the seafood trade?
there were several factors at play in the hushing up of the severity of this catastrophe. first of all, japan is an island with little empty real estate, 125M people, and tokyo 100miles away. so it's not like they could just evacuate people in any meaningful proportion. second, the formidable nuclear lobby which includes companies such as GE, doesn't want any negative publicity for their business worldwide, or for the dozens of other nuke power plants in japan itself. and third, they probably still don't even know for certain what the extent of the disaster is. the radiation levels are so high onsite that they can only guess as to what is going on below...near the water table. any real resolution will be a multi-generational effort..
Yup i haven't eaten sea food in about a year, been a vegetarian for about 3 months. Although you can still probably find good meat and seafood, the best meat would probably be from south america since the radiation is mostly hitting the northern hemisphere. Also fresh water fish farm's wouldn't be bad either as long as the water there using is good and if it's not being rained on by radioactive water or anything.
There is no way spiked radiation levels in grocery store milk could be kept a secret. None. Same with tap water. Fear mongering taken to masturbatory levels.
I wear a radiation badge at work and turn it in for monthly readings. So far, to my knowledge, I have not become radioactive from this.
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Both this link and the one for the original article do a piss poor job of properly linking to or citing credible sources for their claims. Quoting Harvey Wasserman, who is in no way a scientist and is a anti-nuclear activist is not evidence. Two minutes perusing their website was enough to tell me "World Truth TV" sure as hell isn't a credible source of the milk with 2000% increase in radiation levels (especially since this is something that literally thousands of other people could easily test and prove). The map of mortality rates isn't cited to anyone and doesn't even to attempt to explain why these figures should be considered a direct correlation to radioactivity. I checked out the California Radiation Monitoring Reports cited in the 2nd article, but the trace amounts of radiation found as a result of of the disaster in food (still well below acceptable levels, and they don't even attempt to hide the source of it) remained almost exactly the same in 2012 with no increase. I don't even have a dog in this fight. I'm not some type of nuclear power advocate or anything. i'm just genuinely concerned about the impact of the Japan nuclear disaster and want to know if there any solid evidence contradicting the FDA official line, but that sh-tty article provides absolutely nothing useful. 'sigh' It's frustrating what passes for "journalism" on the internet.
^^Correct. Although I am concerned about the food, I would like to see some well cited research on this subject.
Well you can look it up there's about a thousand articles and web pages about it, most generally saying the same things. You can choose who and what you believe to be legit yourself. I know the articles i quoted aren't by scientist or experts they're selves but i do believe what they're saying is true. It's a well known fact what there doing with the nuclear reactors in Japan and how they're dumping all the radiation in the water. Common sense says, you dump radiation in the water, the water flows the to the west coast. The seafood gets contaminated by radiation, the breeze from the ocean is a radioactive breeze, the air is contaminated with radiation, then the rain is contaminated with radiation. It rains on the apple tree's and the grass, the cows eat the grass. The food becomes contaminated with radiation. Food, air, water all contaminated with radiation in the northern hemisphere is just common sense.
Common sense tells me that radiation must dissipate naturally. Common sense tells me there's naturally occurring radiation from the sun. If there's thousands of articles and web pages, one of them must be published by a scientists. Please link that one.
We seem to have survived Chernobyl and it was far worse than Fukushima -- this article is nothing but fear mongering. People forget that throughout earth's history naturally occurring nuclear meltdowns have occurred and there aren't areas of the planet that are uninhabitable because of those reactions.
Well if you can find me a study saying all the radiation from fukushima is disspating immediately i'd like to see it. There is studys that say the radiation in seaweed on the west coast has raised because of fukushima, there for its not dissapating and the pacific ocean is radioactive. Very low doses of natural radiation from the sun, ill live with that. Man made nuclear radiation at dangerously high levels im not cool with. Like i said you can look through the articles your self and choose what and who you believe to be legit your self.
