Humane handling radioactivity

"Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society.

Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people."

- Cesar Chavez - (1927-1993)

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Cesar Chavez was an American?labor leader and civil rights?activist. Along with Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later merged with the?Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the?United Farms Workers labor union.?

- From Wikipedia

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WORKING SAFELY BY?STEVE?SAYER

Meet 59-year-old livestock rancher Masami Yoshizawa of Nami, Japan.

His newly rechristened cattle ranch; “Ranch of Hope” is home to a herd of castoff cows that were left behind by other ranchers in his hometown Nami, following the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster of 2011.

Prior to the earthquake and ensuing tsunami, the town of Nami was known to be the home of a large number of outlying cattle ranches. After the town’s 85,000 residents were forced to evacuate because of high levels of radioactivity, herds of cattle were left alone to tend for themselves.

Early on, Masami took it upon himself to save as many of the starving and abandoned cattle as he could.

In a scene reminiscent of an Arthur C. Clarke science-fiction story, he discovered a newly born calf bellowing next to his dead’s mother famished carcass in a neighbor’s evacuated barn.

Outside the barn, were rows of decaying carcasses with their heads positioned in empty feeding troughs.

The calf, named “Strawberry” by Masami, is alive today.

The Japanese government has been ordering Masami for several years to stop helping the contaminated livestock and to kill them instead. His steadfast refusal is based on two things:

1)????The Japanese government’s refusal to admit mistakes concerning the magnitude of the nuclear accident:

2)????The government’s refusal to help the animals.

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“These cows are living testimony to the human folly here in Fukushima. The government wants to kill them because it wants to erase what happened here, and lure Japan back to its pre-accident nuclear status quo.

I am not going to let them,”?

So stated Masami as published on the front page of the New York Times.

Most of the livestock in the designated “hot zone” were a specialized breed known as “Japanese Black” which is highly valued because of their marbled wagyu-style beef.

Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture wants the?“walking accident debris” to be slaughtered, burned and buried along with other radioactive waste.

The surviving cows continue eating and drinking the limited supplies that Masami provides them as his story circles the globe.

Donations both domestically and internationally continue to help finance and support Masami’s humane efforts. All this despite exposing himself to daily radioactivity levels deemed 1-? times above what is considered safe.

What do you think of Masami’s efforts?

Are they humane or inhumane?

What about the indecisions of Japan’s government thus far?

What would the public fall out be here in the United States if a similar disaster occurred here?

Would we be ready?

What can be learned from this story for future preventive measures?

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1/16/2014 Meatingplace.com (updated 02/01/2022)

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