Posted on 07/19/2011 5:22:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Miyagi man who sold contaminated straw blames gov't for scandal
OSAKI, Miyagi -- A man in Osaki, Miyagi Prefecture, who sold straw contaminated with high levels of radioactive cesium told the Mainichi on July 18 that he had never imagined that his straw was contaminated because the city is about 150 kilometers away from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.
"The wind was in a different direction immediately after the hydrogen explosions, so I never thought it was contaminated. I really feel sorry," the man said.
The man made the remarks in response to recent revelations that cows shipped from Fukushima Prefecture were fed with contaminated straw that he had shipped.
The man purchased straw from rice farmers in Osaki between late March and April and shipped it to Fukushima and Yamagata prefectures.
(Excerpt) Read more at mdn.mainichi.jp ...
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Anyone who feeds “straw” to their livestock deserves what they get.
Don’t you think it is just reporters who don’t know the difference between straw and hay?
I’ve wondered about this for a week. I wonder if rice straw has nutritional value? Anybody know?
I’ve wondered about this for a week. I wonder if rice straw has nutritional value? Anybody know?
Most certainly, I was being facetious.
Could be a translation issue ... I'm pretty sure the origin of the reports was all said in Japanese.
A perfect example of why lying about the contamination levels makes the situation much worse. Why government officials cannot even realize that is beyond me.
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