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Just recently, farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture,
have begun planting rice in a district previously designated as a
‘no-plant zone’ due to of radioactive fallout.
This will be the first time since March, 2011’s core meltdowns that rice intended for public sale will be planted in fields that are possibly still contaminated with radioactive cesium and other toxic materials.
While the
Japanese public is vehemently opposed to GMO, do they really want to eat radioactive rice? The government of Japan seems not to care.
Despite
the urging of the people of Japan, the government continues to allow
farming in radioactive areas while also permitting large quantities of
imported GM canola from Canada. There is also now GM canola growing wild
around Japanese ports and roads to major food oil companies.
Genetically modified canola such as Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready canola
has been found growing around these ports when being tested for GM
contamination. Japan was also recently
duped into accepting Monsanto’s GM soybeans. Does this country really need any more toxic food?
In other news, animals and people living near the Fukushima radiation are suffering.
Wild monkeys that reside in a forest near Fukushima are now showing alarming changes in their blood composition. This doesn’t bode well for humans who were exposed to radiation from within several hundred kilometers of the Daiichi site.
Just
weeks ago, two Japanese farmers whose livelihoods are in ruins due to
the 2011 nuclear disaster staged a protest at Tokyo’s agriculture
ministry, scuffling briefly with police as they unsuccessfully tried to
unload a bull from a truck.
Masami Yoshizawa and fellow farmer
Naoto Matsumura have remained at their farms to care for their own and
others’ abandoned livestock in areas where access has been restricted
due to radiation fears since the March, 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima
Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. The livestock they brought with them for the
protest had developed unexplainable white spots on their coats.
The farmers believe it is due to radioactive fallout.
Thousands
of farmers lost their livelihoods when their farms, produce, and
livestock were declared off-limits and unsafe, but allowing radioactive
farms to plant now doesn’t solve the problem, and neither do genetically
modified foods. It seems the corporate biotech bullies won’t stop their
own agricultural terrorism, even when a country is down on their luck.
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