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Radioactive wild boar roaming the forests of Germany
UK Daily Telegraph ^ | September 1, 2014 | Justin Huggler

Posted on 09/02/2014 6:27:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog

Twenty-eight years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, its effects are still being felt as far away as Germany – in the form of radioactive wild boars.

Wild boars still roam the forests of Germany, where they are hunted for their meat, which is sold as a delicacy.

But in recent tests by the state government of Saxony, more than one in three boars were found to give off such high levels of radiation that they are unfit for human consumption.

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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: chernobyl; environment; hunting; radiation
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That WAS my first thought — microwave bacon without the microwave; but there was the comment in the article about the radiation levels making them unfit for human consumption. Of course, the anti-food busybodies say the same thing about Cheetoes so maybe you’re onto something.


21 posted on 09/02/2014 7:42:51 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Uncle Miltie

Glow in the dark bacon.....

COOL!!!!!


22 posted on 09/02/2014 7:56:47 AM PDT by njslim
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To: Buckeye McFrog

***SyFy movie ***
Standard plot.
A racially diverse group of teens or twenty somethings crashes, wrecks, gets lost on a deserted area with no help.

Something starts killing them off, usually a government experiment that went wrong and escaped.

All the men, instead of trying to defend themselves, fight each other to see who will be the Alpha male and get the girls while they are being killed off.

Yawn.


23 posted on 09/02/2014 7:57:02 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Chainmail

***There now are no materials of any kind without radioactive content, anywhere.***

The last radioactive free water in the world was found in 1958 in the canteens on the crashed bomber LADY BE GOOD. The investigators of the crash used it to make coffee. I read about it many years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Be_Good_%28aircraft%29


24 posted on 09/02/2014 8:06:47 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

[ Chernobyl has become a paradise for wildlife, radioactive or not. ]

Life... Survives....

Life... Returns...


25 posted on 09/02/2014 8:21:16 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
>>>>>>Which gives me all kinds of warm-and-fuzzies about Genetic Engineering.<<<<<<

Not to mention climate engineering...

26 posted on 09/02/2014 8:23:18 AM PDT by DTA
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Infect these ‘glow hogs’ with Ebola, strap some explosives on them, and turn them loose on ISIS.


27 posted on 09/02/2014 8:37:02 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Boarnado!”


28 posted on 09/02/2014 8:41:37 AM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are easy to spot at night as they glow.


29 posted on 09/02/2014 9:25:01 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Always love to hear people tell me about scientific certainty. We never know even a small fraction of the down range ramifications of what we do.

It’s like a world filled with idiot savants, ingeniously ruining everything.

These are the same scientists who assure us that existence is an accident, further improved by more accidents.


30 posted on 09/02/2014 9:37:22 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Carthego delenda est
Infect these ‘glow hogs’ with Ebola, strap some explosives on them, and turn them loose on ISIS.

A Pakistani I know once told me if we want to overrun Afghanistan or any Muslim country, all we need to do is to first airdrop live pigs and Playboy magazines.

They'll be so utterly freaked out they'll be defenseless.


31 posted on 09/02/2014 1:23:36 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Chernoble is a long way from Germany. Any fallout should have been more intense in the Ukraine, Poland, and the Chech Republic which are closer. The radiation should be affecting many species. Maybe there is a local hospital dumping waste in Germany? Chernoble
32 posted on 09/02/2014 6:03:40 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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