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Rice From Fukushima Was Served To Japanese Government Officials, And Then Something Odd Happened
Two days ago, supposedly in an attempt to demonstrate how "contained" the radiation fallout from Fukushima was, an event was held in Tokyo to demonstrate the safety of the rice grown in the vicinity of the evacuated area around the exploded nuclear power plant according to the source, NHK. And since officials from Fukushima Prefecture said "no radioactive materials were detected in any of the harvested rice" a whopping 540 kilograms of the non-radioactive rice would be served in a government office complex in Tokyo for 9 days from Monday. We further learned that Senior Vice Environment Minister Shinji Inoue and Parliamentary Vice Environment Minister Tomoko Ukishima tasted rice balls made of the crop on the first day. Inoue said the rice tasted good especially when he thought about the great effort that went into cultivating the crop. A farmer from Kawamata Town said he will continue to cultivate rice now that he knows that it's possible to grow a tasty product if the paddy fields are properly decontaminated. He said he travelled from his temporary home to the paddy to tend the rice as it grew.
While we will avoid commenting on the "intelligence" behind this action, designed to demonstrate just how under control the Fukushima situation is (when even Tepco admitted it no longer is), especially since it takes years if not decades for radiation-induced illnesses to appear (although we do remind readers that the leader of the Fukushima explosion response team did die from Cancer in July, or just over two years after the disaster), we will note something curious.
A quick search for the original article on NHK, which we read when it came out, reveals a surprising finding: a 404 error.
This is ironic because a cached version of the same URL still exists, all the more so since the original story was picked up and syndicated by others include RT and Voice of Russia.
Which makes one wonder: is this the first instance of the government's brand new "secrecy" bill being implemented, and if so, why, of all places, in a story which is nothing but propaganda to telegraph that all is well in Fukushima and whose downside is at most the well-being (and life) of two lowly government apparatchiks.
In the meantime, if the US is importing any rice from Japan, it may want to give it the good old Geiger Counter test or two.
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It's for your own good.
We have to eat the rice to see what's in it.
Well played sir.
If you want your rice; you can keep it
"WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' RADIATION"..........we've got GMO.......
Fukushima Rice™: The radiant rice that will make your tastebuds glow!
Get your skiis shined up
Grab a bowl of Fuk-u-Rice
The taste is gonna move ya
Move you up
Move you out
The taste is gonna move ya when you pop it in your mouth
Fuk-u-Rice- it's gonna move ya
It's got a taste that gets right through ya
Fuk-u-Rice- the taste is gonna gonna gonna move ya!!!
Long monkey shaped Geiger counters with their hands over their eyes, ears and mouths.
I'm sure the rice is just fine.
Look out Uncle Ben, this new Japanese stuff cooks itself!
Moar importantly, where is fonestar this morning?
Last seen rolling around in a make believe pile of B/C, softly chanting... Mine, Mine all Mine.
yeah
he's probably fapping to this chart right as we speak.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=366214.0
It doubles as a graph of cancer rates from eating Japanese rice.
See, I just mention his name and out they come...
Sorry, didn't mean to threadjack. Very sad to see what is going on over there.
"You have to eat your radioactive rice" Obama 2013
yeah I guess we're just drawn to you the same way flies are drawn to shit.
Actually I just dont appreciate your blatant thread jacking combined with the "pre-emptive strike".
BTW did you see that BTC is gonna be over one million dollars by 2018?
Prisoners dilemmania said:
And in 2018, amazingly enough, that will buy you 5 gallons of gasoline, a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk, and six eggs.
Or 100 shares of Facebook.
Since Fuckushittinme nothing coming in is checked for radiation, nor fishies in the seas, whatever...
Eat your radiation er peas, er whatthefuckever, peasants
I have three counters and I use them. So far no earth shattering detection, but there does seem to be a slight increase in background radiation.
Picture if you will a large concrete cup containing 1400 fuel rods suspended on damaged girders six stories tall just meters up hill from the ocean. Now picture a crane operator using a crane to manually (not precisely with a computer controlled crane) to remove fuel rods one at a time knowing that if two are touched together it could be curtains. Imagine if you will this going on for over a year with no incident and without another 7.0 earthquake occurring in that timeframe. Wonder what the Las Vegas Odds are on this???
Sum ting Wong
Wi tu glo
Ho li fuk(ushima)
"Tickling the dragon's tail" actually takes you to the page "Demon core" in Wikipedia.
Kinda gives a new meaning to "fat tailed distribution"
What a farce, look up Plumegate and hatrick penry, he has the AEC doc's from freedome of info request, showing clearly that bldng 4 is gone.
Look at photo's of #4 after the first earthquake, total destruction, now heck, its all new and shiny. We are being bombarded here on the West Coast and Plumegate is off the radar?
Obama said there was no chance of Fuku ratiation hitting N. America. That is very uncool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqxX5S_mty4&feature=c4-overview&list=UU2u90s3kHtRWXCkYoXtfInw
got Dandelion?
Rice-A-Radi.
The Fukushima Treat!
These government assholes... I hope their tiny little Jap dicks fall off.
However, I'm quite sure this publicity stunt was fake. They ate some other rice and gave the Fuku poison to unsuspecting sheeple.
Runkle Ren's Radioactive Rice cures the common sphincter itch, prostate irregularities, flatulation, dandruff, excessive ear wax, nose hair, and of course, stupidity.
" You didn't grow that rice. "
Fonestar was last seen at an Amway executive meeting, begging for moar soap.
Then, he went home to stroke himself off on a pile of The Precious Bitcoins.
I will prove how holy and righteous I am by letting this poisonous viper bite me! #freakinsnakehandlers
The Japanese newscaster who ate Fukushima food every day suddenly got unrelated cancer and died too.
It was unrelated cancer so it must have been unrelated to Fuckushittinme.
you didnt cultivate that rice, someone else made that happen
Are we printing moar rice? ...not literally.
i greened, but.
i dunno, its gettin old.
Short rice. Long potatos.
Or, is that short long grain rice?
I' so confused!
The photo is not Japanese rice. The Fukushima region can only grow short or medium grain rice varieties, not the long grain rice shown in the bowl. The former rice breeder in me has to point this out.
Looks like Mexican-themed ceramic (lead based paint) so that rice just has arsenic and stuff.
so, if the story is bullshit, why use an accurate picture...
Rice & shine bitchez!
Glow in the dark Rice Krispies are finally here!! Neato!
Gee, I hope they come with a magic decoder ring that glows brighter and brighter the more you eat em!
Grow in the dark .....fixed it for ya'
Grow in the dark. . .
Help me out here: Does it power its own photosynthesis, or does someone just have a speech impediment?
Typical American geographic/cultural ignorance on display. :)
"Glow" is the proper Japanese pronunciation.
"Grow" is how it's pronounced IN CHINA.
So that I don't seem too harsh on the above ignoramus' I'll admit... they all look the same to me.
"does it power its own photosynthesis" lol brilliant
+1000 a better analogy could not be found. you didn't eat that.
Ora no!!!!!!!!!!!
sum ting wong
newa vrice maka donga glow!
Please do not worry.
What's the recipe for Fukushima rice balls? No recipe. You sprinkle the rice and it gathers into perfectly shaped buckyballs all by itself.
The dish tastes best when handled with beryllium chopsticks.
Are Bucky balls radioactive now?
Did they turn into Godzilla yet?
As they say, science fiction usually becomes science fact..
I eat nothing coming out of Japan anymore (that I'm aware of).
(excluding women)
you might want to rethink that as well
my free farmer's advice to you this morning: chicks eat fuku rice, meat au jus is contaminated
I don't eat anything that gets up & walks away.
YMMV.
If one were to eat the dead, then that would make zombies... and bankers.
Fish Gone Bad was more in line with what I was referring to...not you...the other fish gone bad.
Rule of thumb for meat: don't eat anything pink that doesn't moan back at you . . . like it well done.
Hmmm... Well the problem is with things like Carrageenan, a pretty universal food and product filler and additive that is made from kelp. Hard to know exactly what's in your foods and medicines-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/5399729187/
Tuna taco
The Template for this story must have been the Chinese film produced in 50s that showed the Noble Chinese soldiers marching towards the nuclear blast in the background.
See, It's actually GOOD for you!
I like my rice with a little extra glow...
Let them eat rice
Just need Monsanto to develop a Radiation ReadyTM rice strain and we'll be fine.
Get ready for the new Monsanto GLO rice strains!!!
Now, if it was radioactive and GMO, that would be different...
Close - if it was radioactive, GMO AND grown in sewage sludge now THAT would be different indeed....
... with some Red Slime thrown in for additional flavor
...and when it cross pollinates and irradiates a neighboring farmer's crops, Monsanto will sue them!
I wish that was just a joke.
They just don't get it. It is just painful to watch. I'm talking about what folks call the "global elite"...or what I call the "failed status quo." They continue to operate as if we are all watching network broadcast television news...in our quest for information. I don't know ANYONE who gets information that way, anymore. The internet has removed the filter...but these prehistoric status quo governments...just don't get it.
Feed the rice to every last politician in Japan...and quickly so. Have them eat buckets of it...so that we might finally rid ourselves of these failed human beings.
Agree! And if there's any left ship it to Ottawa, DC, London, Brussels,...
I know what you're saying. My father-in-law, who gets ALL his news from CNN eternally blaring in his living room is so much less informed than my mother, who uses the internets to read the NYT.
Anything that doesn't come from a brick n mortar source is, to them, either suspect or non-existent.
To both of them, Fukushima was something that happened a couple of years ago. Old news. In an effort to head off their predictable Obama-loving one-liners during Thanksgiving dinner I brought up Fukushima. Blank stares followed by talk about that movie about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
If they believe CNN, they will believe this:
http://topekasnews.com/giant-fukushima-mutant-turtle-finally-captured-ja...
"Feed the rice to every last politician in Japan...and quickly so" adding "and in D.C. also".
Abe is the Kim Jong Un of Japan. Who the hell knows the reasons he does anything?
There used to be a mini documentary of a boyscoutt who attempted and possibly succeeded at creating a nuclear reactor in is shed. The nuclear Boy scout or radio active boyscout- was the title. Anyways gors to show how readily avail these materials can be quite scary. Anyways i reccomend it if u can find it
Check out the book-he succeeded in producing his own nuclear reaction using naturally radioactive rocks, fire alarm elements, and old radium paint from antique clocks. He looks like he's probably a meth head now, too. Hooray!
Most likely the wounds on his face are from rad sickness maybe meth too tho lol
I will have to find this story. A radioactive source is relentless. It constantly emits various forms of radiation 24/7. So depending on how much protection he had, he could have gotten messed up, any number of ways.
He said at the time that he figured the radiation exposure would shorten his life by 5 years which he found acceptable .
Here it is... I'm not sure if it's a spoof or what, would you really want to handle Americium with their bare hands?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwRt74nzRmY
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/boy-who-played-fusion
What's the big deal? Weren't we cool with irradiating produce 10 years ago? Now we don't need to zap it anymore-it's pre-screened for our safety.
Hey, if I eat this stuff, will it take care of the parasites and pathogens I get from my usual American fare? With all the food poisoning and salmonella and tainted Chinese stuff I get, having Japanese rice that kills everything it encounters might be a good deal!
When food is irradiated, it is external radiation, doesnt enter the product. Like a sunburn, which is burnt flesh and goes away.
When food is grown in a contaminated environment, radioactive isotopes are contained in the food, and when you consume the food, those isotopes lodge inside your body. The isotopes issue elestronic pulses that fry whatever muslce or bone or other tissue surrounds it.
Its like having a microwave inside your body radiating you from the inside-out.
Fukushima released 250 radioactive isotpoes. Some we hear about and are tested, like iodine-131, cesium-134 and 137 and strontium 90. Most arent tested at all. Some tests cost $100 each, other like Strontium, are expensive and cost over $100 each.
It would cost over $50,000 to test one item (eg beef) fom your last meal for every isotope from Fukushima. One item. One meal.
But other isotopes we dont hear about as much. But they are there. Germanium from Fukushima, with a half life of 80 million years, will be completely gone from your body in 800 million years.
So this is not just like turning off your microwave.
80 millions years? Shit, my wife planted a bunch of germaniums outside the kitchen window and those things didn't last but 8 months.
They can spin it which ever direction they like but I know JAPAN is toasted.
When food is irradiated, it is external radiation, doesnt enter the product. Like a sunburn, which is burnt flesh and goes away.
I guess Trading Troll takes pleasure from adding his disinformation as his name implies. Check out Wikipedia under "food irradiation." By far the most common practice is to use gamma radiation from Cobalt60. This shit has very high penetrating power. (Ce137 is an alternative, but the article laments that there just wasn't enough to go around - guess this section was last edited pre-Fukushima :-) The basis of this process is to use some type of ionizing radiation to fuck up the DNA of the unwanted critters and kill them. Sometimes referred to as the Fuckyoushima Depopulation Process when applied to humans as opposed to E. coli. The PTB wish you to believe that only ionizing radiation can effect your health but this is also total crap. Why are all microwave ovens built as enclosed Faraday cages? BTW, your wifi and cordless phones have the same general band width as your MW oven which is 2.45 GHz.
"Why are all microwave ovens built as enclosed Faraday cages?"
Probably to prevent fires in the materials immediately adjactent to the oven. Why must everything be a conspiracy?
Gamma radiation DOES have very high penetrating power. So high, it just blasts right through the sterilized sample. The resulting sterile sample is not radioactive. If it was, the doctors working with gamma-sterilized tools and people with gamma sterilized implants would probably have a few words to say on the subject.
A) I was responding to TT's assertion that it just affected the surfaces of the target. Glad you agree with me ;-)
B) If the gamma rays just "blasts right through the target" how does it kill the unwanted bugs?
C) I never claimed in my comment that the gamma rays produced significant radioactive nuclides.
As to conspiracies, as the Tylers here are constantly pointing out, today's conspiracy theories become tomorrows conspiracy facts.
"Why are all microwave ovens built as enclosed Faraday cages?"
Probably to prevent fires in the materials immediately adjactent to the oven. Why must everything be a conspiracy?
They put Farady cage wire mesh in the front window glass off microwave ovens to prevent fires. Wednesday humor?
If your rice has a half life of 80 years,,,does that mean its good for long term storage....it should
Make a movie about it and next thing you know self fullfilling prophecy. Radiation disaster next Godzilla !
Best guess is they took the story down because of the comments that followed it (assuming they allowed comments, which is only a guess).
You bring up an interesting point...when scrolling through the comments section of a Japanese article, does one scroll to the right?
Long potatoes
If you like your rice, you can keep your rice.
Bet it comes pre-'cooked'.
arrggghh ... beat me to it! +1
No, cooks itself just add water.
For unkown reasons the government cantina has no visitors. Officials looking into the case.
On your store shelves soon - Fukushima Brand, self-cooking rice. No heat necessary, just add water.
Oryza sativa to Oradiation sativa
If they want their radioactive rice they can keep it.
The more profiicient I get at l my little hobby farm the more I realize just how fortunate I am. I'm aware wind borne contaminates can still get to it, but I've got a lot of control over what goes into my garden and into my system. I don't trust Corporate Agriculture any more than I trust bankers. I canned up a batch of fresh turnip greens yesterday morning and tested some with a pone of cornbread for dinner. Superb if I do say so myself. I've got some brown spots in the center of the turnips themselves which seem to indicate a boron deficiency. All part of the learning curve.
Good for you!
Ditto!
You didn't grow that
>> You didn't grow that
It won't be a popular sentiment on here, but in an oblique way, i agree with that statement. I certainly didn't know why some of my turnips were brown in the middle in spite of appearing very healthy. A moment on the internet and I'd found the reason though. I do thank the couple of folks who took the time to post the information on the net allowing me to educate myself. And I hope I can in turn help someone else. We are all in this together and our accomplishments are, in general, built on a foundation of others efforts. No reason for me not to feel pride in my accomplishment, nor not to acknowledge the efforts of others that allowed my to follow my dreams.
and here i thought all turnips were brown or rotten in the middle
>> i thought all turnips were brown or rotten
Let me guess, Yankee?
j/k
That is a temporary individual fix which may suffice for your lifetime.
But the way the human race is headed, deadly radiation, polluted air, fouled water, contaminated soil, engendered plague, or some other curse will be inescapable, even for would-be organic farmers.
>> may suffice for your lifetime.
As I'm the end of my fathers progeny, that will suffice handily.
You Don't Mess With The Gohan!
(gohan in Japanese means cooked rice or meal)
Louisiana rice is better any way.
It is if you're looking for a cheap way to lubricate your car's engine.
Banzai7 graphic coming in 1 ... 2 ... 3 ...
If you like your lousy "if you like..." jokes, you can keep them.
Fukushima rice = Organic nuclear fuel.
300k Fukushima refugees still living 'in cages' in makeshift camps — RT News
Maybe if there is anything left of journalism some outlets that are not in Japan needs to ask some of the officials about this story when they are overseas.
Look mommy my poop glows in the dark!
Reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0BwzIihQOI
YES! I was going to post that. The problem is that these government fall on their sword types are even dumber than Burns is
A BEAR ransacked my garbage last night. Feasted on some frozen stock in the rock freezer and shat all over the front porch.
Markets are down considerably. What does this mean?
The bear is coming out and having a good time?
Bear market.
Wice a woanie the fukishima tweet!
Per Boris says rice clean only for sake to misery lessen of death sentence.
"I like rice. Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something." (Mitch Hedberg)
Please do not worry.
WI TU HOTT
"Ho Li Fuk"
(yes guys, that's a quote)
That Sake out to have a littel extra kick
And ZH slides further into the What Really Happened Loony Toonz TwiLight Zone.
you sound angry
tell us more about how this site upsets you and be sure and share all your details
That reminds me of the stunt another pillock pulled in the BSE crisis in the UK............
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/369625.stm
I could still remember this and always discusts me. I had to upvote you. Does anyone know what happened to his daughter? IS SHE ALRIGHT? As for him we all know he HAD mad cow's disease, before that event.
I suppose they got used to it.
I for one welcome our new Pilaf Overlords.
New Godzilla movie coming out next May, timing couldn't be better as it focuses on a rice-eating iguana in the Fukashima prefecture who....
Godzilla is not going to shoot next movie in Fukushima. Godzilla is not stupid?
Tomoko Ukishima showed signs of distress as he struggled to swallow pellets of glowing rice, but when offered to wash the food down with a bottle of Fukushima Springs mineral water, he responded: "The rice tastes fine!"
Rice with a side of iodine pills and vitamin C.......mmmmmmmmm.
No cancer here.
Breaking news:
Iran cancels domestic uranium enrichment program and instead orders 500 tonns of Fukushima rice.
Got rice, bitch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Yd8g1kV3Y
Are these men the offspring of once proud men who could commit hara kiri or are they the offspring of those latex dolls that they keep producing?
The Japanese cannot hide from the fact that they are dying on several fronts....demographic, nuclear, economic and societal.
I suppose they see us and see other forms of dying as well.
What's the shelf half-life of Japanese rice?
Condoleeza Rice.....
Christmas is coming up.
i think i'll get my wife a geiger counter for the kitchen.
shhhh theyll hear you
I must have purchased some Fukushima rice by accident. I found a two pound rice kernel in the bag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kALRTUX4GW0
This article accidently highlights one of Japan's biggest problems, not radiation, but the fact that Japan has a gazillion farmers each farming tiny plots of land staying competitive with huge subsidies and import controls. Reforming farming in Japan would do more than a quadrillion yen in QE, but the farmers have the political parties by the balls so no chance of it actually happening.
Actually Fukushima rice should be grown and exported with a feint pink dye through it for use at weddings so the good rice does not have to be wasted.