Posted on 07/18/2011 5:05:20 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
411 more cows in Fukushima found to have been fed cesium-tainted straw+
Jul 18 05:53 AM US/Eastern
straw+ (AP) - FUKUSHIMA, Japan, July 18 (Kyodo)—Seven more farms in Fukushima Prefecture fed their beef cattle rice straw contaminated with radioactive cesium, bringing a total of about 411 more cows suspected of having been exposed to the isotope into the nation's beef distribution chain, the Fukushima prefectural government said Monday.
Of the cows shipped from the farms, 199 went to Tokyo, 192 to Hyogo Prefecture, nine to Gunma Prefecture, eight within Fukushima Prefecture, two to Tochigi Prefecture and one to Saitama Prefecture.
The straw that remained at the farms was found to contain the isotope measuring as high as 690,000 becquerels per kilogram, far above allowable limits and the highest concentration found so far in the current turmoil.
In trying to alleviate mounting concerns over contaminated beef, the government is set to suspend shipments of beef cattle from Fukushima Prefecture as early as Tuesday, on the basis of a law governing measures in nuclear disasters.
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I didn’t read the article, but since when does a farmer feed straw? Just wondering.
FUBO
Stated this on a related thread...Most people who don’t know what their talking about when it comes to animal husbandry mistakenly consider Hay and Straw synonymously.
http://www.cfbf.com/agalert/AgAlertStory.cfm?ID=1164&ck=00E26AF6AC3B1C1C49D7C3D79C60D000
I don’t know. My first jobs were on farms, got paid $0.50 an hour. Never saw sheep, cattle, horses, hogs, geese, nor deer, eat straw. Who knows tho?
FUBO
Straw? You see that constantly. Also references to a “roll in the hay”. Only if rolling around on barbwire with an extremely high itch and sneeze factor thrown in sounds like a good time.
And don’t mind the occassional rat or snake hiding in it.
Guess you hit that nail on the head traderrob6.
Seems to me I remember waaaay back to one of my feed and nutrition classes in college that it takes significantly more energy to digest straw (including rice straw) then the energy derived from it making any straw a completely nonviable foodstuff.
These articles are from Japan and therefore translation errors tend to creep in. I’ve seen this use of ‘straw’ translated by others as ‘rice hay’. Rice hay was not regulated for radioactive contamination like other feeds were so the Japanese fed their cows rice hay.
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