The latest outrage...
...And THIS is why I will no longer drink green tea... EVER. Japan, you are cutting your own throat with crap like this. Not content to suffer history's worst nuclear disaster, lose great swaths of your country to radiological contamination and endure elevated public health crises for decades to come, you will now make yourself into a pariah among trading nations, will annihilate your economy and destroy any trust or faith all across the world. Well done. It's not enough to take a wrath-of-God beating... Now you're going to throw yourself out of a moving car while speeding toward the hospital.
Which is why this is, increasingly, a TRAGEDY, and not merely a "disaster". To be a tragedy, it must be accentuated by acts of man... And this is a textbook example.
Time to get some new people in your government, Japan. While there's still something left of your country to ruin.
Oh, BTW -- here's what I'm referring to: Kyodo News has a story about how the government of Shizuoka Prefecture told a mail-order tea retailer NOT to inform its customers about the cesium in its product.
Nice.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
Yeah, this is what happens
Yeah, this is what happens when your deal with the devil (nuclear power) goes bad.
Guess the nightmare of vast, long-term contamination of fertile agricultural land is slowly beginning to sink in for the Japanese farmers.
I feel sorry for them.
Used to LOVE drinking their sencha and matcha green tea
No more...
Company WARNED customers
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Rick,
The Radishbo-ya Tea Company advised customers of the cesium finding and has a product recall in effect. This story is more about one dishonorable, 'faceless' lying-dog bureaucrat. Publish his name, hand him a bath mat, sword and arrange a 2nd. Sepuku, or the equivalent is how the Japanese have historically handled such indiscretions.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110610x3.html
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/shizuoka-retailer-told-...
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110610p2g00m0dm090000c.html
SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) -- Shizuoka Prefecture told a Tokyo-based mail order retailer to refrain from carrying information on its website that radioactive materials in excess of the standard limit were detected in tea grown in the prefecture, the retailer said Friday.
A prefectural official told Radishbo-ya Co., after the retailer made a query to the local government Monday, not to disclose the finding for a while on fears that the message could cause unwarranted harm to Shizuoka tea growers, adding that the prefecture would confirm it on its own, the firm said.
The firm, for its part, sent purchasers of the tea letters informing them about the finding, while offering to recall the products.
Pay the damages
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Tea: growers, co-ops, wholesalers, processors, shippers, trade associations, exporters, packagers and local/state/national taxing authorities should invoice GE, Hitachi and Tepco for the damages.
Then green tea consumers should simply seek radionuclide safe beverage supplies from the Southern Hemisphere for the next several (thousand) years.
For Example:
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This is merely a specific example, not a product endorsement.
http://www.simplyoz.com/products/australian_foods/vegemite__groceries__b...
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Australia is full of
Australia is full of Uranium, man, be careful with that.