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APBy SHINO YUASA and JACOB ADELMAN
TOKYO (AP) - Angry farmers brought two cows to Tokyo where they shouted and punched the air Tuesday in a protest to demand compensation for products contaminated by radiation spewing from Japan's crippled nuclear plant.
The 200 farmers, mostly from northeastern Japan, wore green bandanas, held aloft cabbages they said they couldn't sell and carried signs saying "Stop nuclear energy" outside the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the plant damaged in the March 11 tsunami.
"My patience has run out. The nuclear crisis is totally destroying our farming business," said 72-year-old Katsuo Okazaki, who grows peaches and apples.
Radiation leaking from Fukushima Dai-ichi plant - about 140 miles (220 kilometers) north of Tokyo - has been found in milk, water and vegetables such as spinach from around the plant.
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Farmers, mostly from Fukushima Prefecture where the tsunami crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi plant is located, gather in front of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) headquarters in Tokyo Tuesday, April 26, 2011. More than 200 farmers affected by radiation spewing from the nuclear plant staged a demonstration to demand that TEPCO pays them adequate compensation for loss of income caused by having to leave their farms, or for having produced withdrawn from the market due to contamination fears. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)