“Don’t be a chicken” says Mayor to parents concerned children are eating radioactive lunches — ” The pace of descending into deeper and deeper lunacy seems to be accelerating in Japan” via ENE News

More from the Tokyo Shinbun report on Sept 5, 2012, translated by EXSKF:

Mayor Takao Abe said during the regular press conference on September 4 that it was important for children to learn that they were living in dangers, and that he would continue to use the frozen oranges from Kanagawa and canned apples from Yamagata that were found with radioactive cesium in the school lunches in the elementary schools in Kawasaki City, emphasizing the educational aspect of using food [known to be contaminated with radioactive cesium].[…]

the city has been serving the frozen oranges in the school lunches since April this year. The city will start using the canned apple in September.

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There are parents who are not convinced, but to them, the mayor said, “Don’t be a chicken.”

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