If Fukushima's peaches, which are famous nationwide, don't sell, then no farm product grown in our prefecture will stand a chance. We'll do everything we can.
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Hajime Yoshida, chief of the prefectural government’s farm products distribution division. Peaches from Fukushima are a popular summer gift, but orders have plummeted this year, even though the levels of radioactive material detected in the fruit since the crisis began at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are much lower than government-set interim limits. (Daily Yomiuri)
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tmarie
Sorry but until regulations are in place, the government and TEPCO stop lying, I am not buying anything from any of the areas affected - if I can help it. I certainly don't trust the food labels here either! I also don't trust that those peaches are lower than set limits!
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Pukey2
That goes for cucumbers too! I'm sure they used to sell cucumbers from other parts of the country, but ever since the nuclear plant problem started, apart from the odd cucumbers from Gunma, they've been bombarding our place with Fukushima cucumbers. The message being - buy Fukushima or don't eat at all.
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tmarie
Pretty much it, isn't it? I have started ordering things from abroad as I don't trust the government here, nor the labeling, the restaurants, the grocery stores... Their goods will be cheap hence restaurants and whatnot buying it and serving it to the public without a care. More profits!
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Spidapig24
And they wonder why the fruit is not selling. They admit there is radiation contamination on the fruit yet wonder why demand has dropped. Jeez this place is full of rocket scientist isnt it. Next thing they will be adding radiation amounts to the nutritional information on food containers as a way to show how safe it is and how grateful we all should be that they contaminated the food supply. IDIOTS!
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mushroomcloudmaster
Put more accurately, no Japanese food product is safe anymore. The smart thing to do, in order to ensure Japan's survival, is to import 100% of her food needs from nations without radioactive issues, such as China, Australia, South Korea, Thailand, New Zealand, and the United States.
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Utrack
What is Hajime Yoshida thinking in a Nuclear disaster, buy the peaches don't mind a lil thing like cesium? Insane. One word describes the situation with the foodstuff and the environment Bio-hazard.
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warnerbro
There is no safe limit for radioactive caesium. 放射性セシウムは安全な値がゼロです。 It is not a natural part of anybody's diet. Children especially should be prevented from consuming it. The government admonitions against "harmful rumours" 風評 are ludicrous, irresponsible, and potentially harmful themselves. Rumours are not harmful to children's health. Caesium is. Besides, caesium contamination is not a rumour. It is a fact. Caesium has been found in a long list of products from north central and central Japan. We have seen time and again that the government does not make safety the priority. Test everything. If you can't test it, if you haven't enough machines or personnel, nobody should eat it. The rising exchange rate means that nobody need go hungry. Japan can afford to buy plenty of non contaminated foods and perhaps the outflows of yen to do so will help lower the high value of the yen.
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Nippon Nation
If the media would stop creating the hysteria! Radiation levels for peaches are within safe eating range. Please control the media firestorm. It needs to stop!
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Spidapig24
Nippon Nation
Maybe if the Japanese government got off its worthless butt and did something about the radiation leaking and contaminating the food, land and people then the media would stop reporting the truth about the state of this country. Afterall its the J government and TEPCOs incompetance that is allowing this to happen
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