Posted on 12/27/2012 8:01:20 AM PST by darth
I'll bet no one else around here owns a calibrated radiation survey meter!
I have posted this before, but it's worth repeating. A few months after the Fukushima meltdown, I took my survey meter to the grocery store. California veggies...fine. Fish display...fine. Canned tuna shelves....UH OH. I measured .05 rad/hour. That's over one rad/day.
Since the tuna was in cans, the alpha and beta particles would not be detected, IIRC. If I remember my particle physics, my meter must have been detecting gammas or neutrons.
If someone ingests the radioactive particles in the tuna, they will be irradiated from the inside by alphas, betas, etc.
From that moment on, I resolved that I will not eat seafood unless I KNOW that it came from the Gulf of Mexico. Preferably, I will only eat what I catch or see come off the boat.
Given the influence of extreme environazis in government and media who want to reduce human population, I would not be surprised if this danger is purposely being covered up.
No, as long as someone says it, I’’m good.
Though I fail to see how pointing out a fact makes one anti anything. But FR isn’t the same site it used to be and facts don’t seem to matter anymore to a lot of posters here.
As long as you’re not anticlimactic, I suppose you’re okay.
And just what are preservatives that can do that doing to your guts?
You can’t ask that question here. That makes you anti-business; believe me, I’ve been there.
Let's send all 535 members of congress to Fukishima to investigate.
And of course, to quote Grace Slick, those “Preservatives might just be preserving you!”
That’s a good point. Considering my health, it’s that or divine intervention ;)
Sure, but about a simple label on a food item that says "This product uses GMO" or some such? Very anti-business around here. I can empathize with people who don't understand or care about such an issue as I was one of them for a long time, but it would be rather helpful if we could sidestep this crap if we wanted to, and God knows businesses like Monsanto aren't going to do it voluntarily.
I dislike gov't regulations as much as the next guy, but I don't believe they're all evil and useless, either.
>> Let’s send all 535 members of congress to Fukishima to investigate.
I agree, but we’re too broke for that kind of travel expense.
So take ‘em halfway by boat and make ‘em swim the rest.
Go to www.ki4u.com
They sell and calibrate rad meters.
I got mine at a garage sale for $5.
For another $500 I got those guys to repair and calibrate it.
They have instructions on how to make your own meter for a few dollars. I have done that before.
Good luck.
Dunno.
I am not an expert, but I know how to read the meter.
Kewl.
Eight crew members of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan, whose home port is San Diego, sued the Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Federal Court.
They claim the utility company, "a wholly owned public benefit subsidiary of the government of Japan," misrepresented radiation levels to lull the U.S. Navy "into a false sense of security."
Sounds kinda familiar to me.
monsanto is the devil.
Sure, but about a simple label on a food item that says
I dislike gov’t regulations as much as the next guy
I swear there is very little difference between liberals and conservatives now days! THE SOLUTION TO EVERY PROBLEM IS GOVT.
God knows businesses like Monsanto aren’t going to do it voluntarily.
The only business that can deal with your simple little label is BIG BUSINESS. BIG BUSINESS and BIG GOVT go hand in hand.
I love this argument that a simple label will bankrupt companies. Please enlighten me.
We are being eaten alive with regulations, and you don’t see it? That is the whole problem. You don’t understand that the only ones who can do your “simple idea” is big business?
I REPEAT, THERE IS VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES.
Right, so you can’t detail to me how slapping .005 cents worth of ink on a package is going to bankrupt numerous businesses. Don’t worry, neither could the people on that CA Prop thread.
Impossible.
We were told over and over by all the experts (I was AMAZED at how many experts there are here on FR that specialized in nuclear radiation) that all it would be would amount to a chest x-ray (or two) or maybe a cross-continental flight.
I got my detector in August and background counts were consistently in the 20-40 CPM (counts per minute) range.
Since then, it has elevated - but only slightly, perhaps to 30-70 CPM.
This is still less than one would expect in eastern Washington, where they get the effects from the Hanford reservation.
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