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Japan: Fukushima tofu makers not deterred by food concerns
Asahi Japan Watch ^ | 12/17/11

Posted on 12/18/2011 6:18:56 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

December 17, 2011

Fukushima tofu makers not deterred by food concerns

FUKUSHIMA--As paranoia over contaminated food has the nation on edge, workers in the Tatsugoyama district of Fukushima city are busy producing the local specialty, freeze-dried tofu.

"While we worried about the effects from the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, we are relieved because radiation tests by the prefectural government before we shipped out the products found no problems," said Yukio Kurosawa, 75, who has been making dried tofu for 50 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at ajw.asahi.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fukushima; radiation; tofu
OK. They are out to irradiate every Japanese.
1 posted on 12/18/2011 6:19:06 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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P!


2 posted on 12/18/2011 6:21:19 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Freeze dried tofu? No wonder Godzilla keeps attacking Japan.


3 posted on 12/18/2011 6:29:32 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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I remember the tofu salesman arriving in our Yokohama neighborhood in the 1950s. He wore an old army cap and announced his arrival with a two-tone toot on a bugle.

The tofu was in bamboo containers carried on a bamboo pole over one shoulder. When the home maker stepped outside, the sale was made and tofu was wrapped in fresh cut newspaper.

4 posted on 12/18/2011 6:51:28 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Pre-cooked?


5 posted on 12/18/2011 7:05:29 AM PST by SouthTexas (You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
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Easy to locate in the dark. Comes in handy when you got up at night with sudden craving of tofu and grope your way to the kitchen in the dark, when there is power outage.:-)


6 posted on 12/18/2011 7:09:47 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wait (wheels slowly turning) do they make ice cream in Japan?


7 posted on 12/18/2011 7:13:41 AM PST by SouthTexas (You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
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Yes, they do.


8 posted on 12/18/2011 7:20:14 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: SouthTexas
Fukushima ice cream. I hope it glows in the dark.


9 posted on 12/18/2011 7:23:25 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

That would not have to glow in the dark, there’s a magnetic attraction already working through the monitor!


10 posted on 12/18/2011 7:37:55 AM PST by SouthTexas (You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
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Well, as long as the government puts it’s stamp of approval on it. They’d never lie, right?


11 posted on 12/18/2011 1:56:20 PM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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Well - let's see. They lie or withhold information, dilute radioactive sludge, rice, and milk with non-radioactive sludge or foods to get just below the really really high 'safety' limits, and yes those safety limits are really really high, aren't they? And where there's cesium, there's strontium and other isotopes, usually. And yet no test or limit for them?
12 posted on 12/20/2011 6:59:11 PM PST by ransomnote
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