Can you guys check wine?
I know it might be expensive, but having just read an article today about the propensity for wineries to migrate up to the pacific northwest (due to climate change) it got me thinking...oh boy, now we can look forward to some cesium infested chardonnay.
But it also got me thinking the breast cancer conundrum in marin county. Nobody can figure out why all these women keep getting it. Could it be because they drink more wine than the average woman? And local wine in particular? French women drink a lot of wine, but don't have nearly as many instances of breast cancer, when compared to Marin.
I'm not saying fuku has anything do with it, but wine provides for a perfect scientific medium. You can test different regions, different vintages, and pre/post fukishima. I'm just thinking that there might be a lot of radiation in all of it, and that the more you drink, the worse off you are. Might be worth looking into. You can drink most of what you test (if you dare).
Umm, most wine is aged so we
Umm, most wine is aged so we prolly don't need to test them for years.
Radioactive Wine
In order to be sold legally in the USA, wine and other liquors are required to be radioactive. Federal law requires that wine and liquor be made from recently grown plant material. In order to assure that the alcohol comes from recently grown plant material, the ATF looks for the radioactivity of natural plants. If the alcohol wasn't radioactive, then it must have come from petroleum since alcohol from petroleum is so old that the radioactivity has died away.
Check out the book, "The Instant Physicist" by Professor Richard Muller of the UC-Berkeley Physics Dept. The above is detailed on pages 12 and 13. In fact, if you go to the Amazon page for this book, you can read their free sample which includes the above 2 pages.