Tag Archives: food

Fukushima fishermen forced to test fish for radiation via Reuters

Posted on 2013/06/01 by kojimaaiko

(Reuters) – Dozens of crabs, three small sharks and scores of fish thump on the slippery deck of the fishing boat True Prosperity as captain Shohei Yaoita lands his latest haul, another catch headed not for the dinner table but … Continue reading →

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Rising radioactive spills leave Fukushima fishermen floundering via Reuters

Posted on 2013/05/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

(Reuters) – Dozens of crabs, three small sharks and scores of fish thump on the slippery deck of the fishing boat True Prosperity as captain Shohei Yaoita lands his latest haul, another catch headed not for the dinner table but … Continue reading →

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Farmers plant rice in former no-go zone in Fukushima for the first time via JDP

Posted on 2013/05/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

For the first time since the March 2011 nuclear accident in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, farmers in the Miyakojimachi district of Tamura have begun planting rice in what was once a no-go zone. It’s also the first time that … Continue reading →

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The Day After: How being 100 km away from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster changed my life via Open

Posted on 2013/04/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Before the world’s worst nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986, I was full of the certainties of youth. Then, overnight, or should I say over the course of a few beautiful spring days, everything … Continue reading →

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Tous Cobayes? / All of us guinea-pigs now? / 世界が食べられなくなる日 via YouTube

Posted on 2013/04/10 by kojimaaiko

(Trailer with English subtitle) (日本語字幕付き予告編） 参考リンク　遺伝子組み換え作物と原発、危険性似ている、福島で撮影　仏映画監督（東京新聞）via facebook

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40% of consumers cautious about food production areas over radiation fears via The Mainichi

Posted on 2013/03/18 by kojimaaiko

About 40 percent of consumers who pay attention to production areas when purchasing food do so because they want to avoid radiation-tainted food, a survey by the Consumer Affairs Agency has shown. According to the survey, 3,531 out of 5,176 … Continue reading →

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Japan’s Anti-Nuclear Activists Losing Ground Since Fukushima Disaster via The Daily Beast

Posted on 2013/03/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Fukushima who? Only two years after the devastating nuclear meltdown, Japan is set to reopen idled reactors. Lennox Samuels on why nobody seems to mind. […] It’s not as if anyone has shrugged off “3/11.” The 2013 anniversary was marked … Continue reading →

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Bluefin Tuna From The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Still Have Traces Of Radiation via Forbes

Posted on 2013/02/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Last May I wrote a piece about Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of southern California that carried radiation from the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear plant that was damaged in the March 2011. The fish were caught in August 2011 as … Continue reading →

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Europe ‘has failed to learn from environmental disasters’ via Euractiv

Posted on 2013/01/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Europe has failed to learn the lessons from many environmental and health disasters like Chernobyl, leaded petrol and DDT insecticides, and is now ignoring warnings about bee deaths, GM food and nanotechnology, according to an 800-page report by the European … Continue reading →

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Fish caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant was 2,500 times over the legal safe radiation limit via The Independent

Posted on 2013/01/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The murasoi fish, which is comparable to a rockfish, was found in the area surrounding the now-closed power plant A murasoi fish, caught close the the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, is over 2,500 times the legal safe radiation limit … Continue reading →

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