Japan Farmers Seek Aid for Radiation Zone Cattle (Mysterious White Spots)
Source: Associated Press
Japan Farmers Seek Aid for Radiation Zone Cattle
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
Jun. 20, 2014 3:24 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) A pair of Japanese farmers whose livelihoods were wrecked by the 2011 nuclear disaster staged a protest Friday at Tokyo's agriculture ministry, scuffling briefly with police as they unsuccessfully tried to unload a bull from a truck.
Masami Yoshizawa and fellow farmer Naoto Matsumura have remained at their farms seeking to care for their own and others' abandoned livestock in areas where access has been restricted due to radiation fears since the March 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.
The two drove down from Fukushima, bringing the black bull in the back of a truck, to appeal for help with the livestock, some of which have developed unexplained white spots on their hides.
"Stop, stop, stop, stop," shouted a policeman in a blue uniform who climbed into the back of the truck and blocked the farmers from leading the bull onto the pavement in front of the ministry. "It's dangerous. Absolutely not!"
Yoshizawa and Matsumura are among thousands of farmers who lost their livelihoods when their farms, produce and livestock were declared off-limits and unsafe after the nuclear plant spewed radiation into the countryside after it was crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/japan-farmers-seek-aid-radiation-zone-cattle
Japanese farmer Masami Yoshizawa, second right, shows a black bull with speckles to the media as police officers block him from leading the bull off a truck he drove from Fukushima, northeastern Japan, in front of Agriculture Ministry in Tokyo Friday, June 20, 2014. Yoshizawa and fellow farmer Naoto Matsumura whose livelihoods were wrecked by the March 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant have staged a protest briefly at the ministry to appeal for help with the livestock, some of which have developed unexplained white spots on their hides. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
zonkers
(5,865 posts)nothing do do with this. Maybe I haven't always been the greatest recycler but that's about it.
madokie
(51,076 posts)Only a fool can't or won't see that.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)ninjanurse
(93 posts)I think that birds around Chernobyl have shown abnormal pigmentation
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wild-things/some-birds-adapt-chernobyl%E2%80%99s-radiation
greiner3
(5,214 posts)As the one on the right, kneeling, is seemingly pushing the standing one who has the body language, legs forward but upper body leaning backward.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)but not too dangerous to build the plants? Cops usually back up the wealthy and government.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I saw in front of a train station a few weeks ago:
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/10024941429
Here's his web site:
http://fukushima-farmsanctuary.blogzine.jp/
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Thanks for linking it.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)With the exception of the yearly memorial service, the disaster area around Dai-ichi seems to have been all but forgotten by Tokyo. I have noticed a campaign in Tokyo commuter trains, though, to get people to travel up to Fukushima. Maybe if enough people go up there and see the actual situation for themselves, they can help spread the word.
http://www.jreast.co.jp/tabidoki/iwaki/