Posted on 03/28/2014 5:48:22 AM PDT by xzins
A Canadian high school student named Bronwyn Delacruz never imagined that her school science project would make headlines all over the world. But that is precisely what has happened. Using a $600 Geiger counter purchased by her father, Delacruz measured seafood bought at local grocery stores for radioactive contamination. What she discovered was absolutely stunning. Much of the seafood, particularly the products that were made in China, tested very high for radiation. So is this being caused by nuclear radiation from Fukushima? Is the seafood that we are eating going to give us cancer and other diseases? The American people deserve the truth, but as you will see below, the U.S. and Canadian governments are not even testing imported seafood for radiation. To say that this is deeply troubling would be a massive understatement.
In fact, what prompted Bronwyn Delacruz to conduct her science project was the fact that the Canadian government stopped testing imported seafood for radiation in 2012…
Alberta high-school student Bronwyn Delacruz loves sushi, but became concerned last summer after learning how little food inspection actually takes place on some of its key ingredients.
The Grade 10 student from Grande Prairie said she was shocked to discover that, in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) stopped testing imported foods for radiation in 2012. And what should be a major red flag for authorities is the fact that the seafood with the highest radiation is coming from China…
Armed with a $600 Geiger counter bought by her dad, Delacruz studied a variety of seafoods – particularly seaweeds – as part of an award-winning science project that she will take to a national fair next month.
“Some of the kelp that I found was higher than what the International Atomic Energy Agency sets as radioactive contamination, which is 1,450 counts over a 10-minute period,” she said. “Some of my samples came up as 1,700 or 1,800.”
Delacruz said the samples that “lit up” the most were products from China that she bought in local grocery stores. It is inexcusable that the Canadian government is not testing this seafood. It isn’t as if they don’t know that it is radioactive. Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…
• 73 percent of the mackerel
• 91 percent of the halibut
• 92 percent of the sardines
• 93 percent of the tuna and eel
• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
So why was radiation testing for seafood shut down in Canada in 2012?
Someone out there needs to answer some very hard questions.
Meanwhile, PBS reporter Miles O’Brien has pointed out the extreme negligence of the U.S. government when it comes to testing seafood for Fukushima radiation. The following comes from a recent EcoWatch article…
O’Brien also introduces us to scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who have been testing waters around the reactors—as well as around the Pacific Rim—to confirm the levels of Fukushima fallout, especially of cesium.
These scientists are dedicated and competent. But they are also being forced to do this investigation on their own, raising small amounts of money from independent sources. They were, explains lead scientist Ken Buesseler, turned down for even minimal federal support by five agencies key to our radiation protection. Thus, despite a deep and widespread demand for this information, no federal agency is conducting comprehensive, on-the-ground analyses of how much Fukushima radiation has made its way into our air and oceans.
In fact, very soon after Fukushima began to blow, President Obama assured the world that radiation coming to the U.S. would be minuscule and harmless. He had no scientific proof that this would be the case. And as O’Brien’s eight-minute piece shows all too clearly, the “see no evil, pay no damages” ethos is at work here. The government is doing no monitoring of radiation levels in fish, and information on contamination of the ocean is almost entirely generated by underfunded researchers like Buesseler. A video news report in which O’Brien discusses these issues is posted below…
It is the job of the authorities to keep us safe, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster was the worst nuclear disaster in human history.
So why aren’t they doing testing?
Why aren’t they checking to make sure that this radiation is not getting into our food chain?
The Japanese are doing testing off the coast of Japan, and one fish that was recently caught off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture was discovered to have 124 times the safe level of radioactive cesium.
So why are all the authorities in North America just assuming that the fish are going to be perfectly fine on this side of the Pacific?
One test that was conducted in California discovered that 15 out of 15 Bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.
So how can the authorities say “don’t worry, just eat the seafood”?
Everyone agrees that a plume of radioactive water has been moving from Fukushima toward the west coast of the United States.
According to researchers at the University of South Wales, that plume is going to hit our shores at some point during 2014…
The first radioactive ocean plume released by the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster will finally be reaching the shores of the United States some time in 2014, according to a new study from the University of New South Wales — a full three or so years after the date of the disaster. The following graphic comes from that study…
And multiple independent tests have already confirmed that levels of nuclear radiation are being detected on California beaches that are more than 10 times the normal level.
Clearly something is happening.
So why are the U.S. and Canadian governments willingly looking the other way?
If it sez China on the bag it stays in the store
I am very aware of farm raised and would probably eat ocean caught vs farm if I had to.Dont have to eat either
Numbers? Baselines? You can grab a potatoe ;-) and it will set off a $600 geiger counter. I am not going to be panicking over this.
Are you sure? Do you eat any US products that contain honey, like honey wheat bread, honey mustard, honey graham crackers, etc.? If so, there is a huge chance that they contain cheap honey from China.
China is the largest producer of honey in the world, but much of China’s honey production is tainted with pesticides, antibiotics, and heavy metal contamination. Chinese honey was banned from the European Market by the EU in 2002.
Only 48 percent of honey used here in processed food is American made. So the odds are most of the remaining honey used is coming directly or indirectly from China.
The govt knows they just don’t want you to know. We stopped eating seafood a week after Fukashima. Have not touched even a can of tuna. Now we are looking at getting a small handheld geiger counter to take to the store to test produce prior to purchase. A lot of stuff is coming from CA.
I see an opportunity here for US farm grown seafood to explode into the market place. Unfortunately, I don’t have the business savvy (I’m an IT tech guy) to know where to get started for funding a start up. It seems like the only way banks will loan money to a business is if they already are up and running.
Any advice from the Freeper community on how to get a start-up funded?
Alberta has high levels of radon gas. She probably was measuring background radon in her home.
Advice: corner the network setup linking customer to the producer. :>)
You a cisco guy?
My brother raises bees as a hobby. Fresh honey is barely like grocery store, processed honey. Not even close, really.
So my question is - how did the carp get infected?
Are there salt water carp? Or estuary?
Hmmm. Apparently so. I thought they were strictly a freshwater fish.
I’d heard about the China honey, but never gave a thought about the processed foods having it. We pretty much stay away from processed foods, but we do -from time to time - buy whole wheat honey bread. Not any more!
We get our honey from a local beekeeper, who’s been in the area for years. Big difference from store bought honey.
You are absolutely right about that! Hubby and I are hobbyist beekeepers. We use NO harsh chemicals or antibiotics in our 50 hives and we do not process our honey, it's pure 100% as taken from the hive.
My point was not that "honey" in processed food is bad..... my point was that "honey from China" is bad and most processed food in the USA is unfortunately using poison honey from China in their foods. Therefore you can't always count on not eating food from China just because the label says it is processed in the USA.
Processed honey might not necessarily be bad, but compared to the real thing it barely tastes like honey
I don’t consume honey .
“but compared to the real thing it barely tastes like honey”
That’s because it rarely IS honey. Much of the grocery store honey you buy these days is faked.
Might as well call it “Flavored Corn Syrup”.
I have noticed that in breakfast restaurants and chicken restaurants, those little packets of imitation honey. It isn’t even a barely passable imitation
Pfft! A little radiation is good for the genetic evolution of a species. Remember “Sanctuary” from Starship Troopers? :-)
Not that there is anything wrong with what you said, t1b8zs....... but I am just curious as to why not?
I dont do sweet stuff,never have.Dont eat sugary deserts,frostings etc.Maybe at holiday time,big maybe.
The only thing I do use is Molasses every now and then on oatmeal,with yogurt and a banana.
I have a jar of honey from the bee guy up the road thats been sitting for years.
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