The Fukushima nuclear disaster began on March 11, 2011, and the end seems to be nowhere in sight. It was caused by the impact of a tsunami that resulted in 18,000 dead and a meltdown of three six nuclear reactors at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.. This poses an extreme threat to our water supply, food supply, and our ecosystems, a threat much larger than any media outlet will admit. At the time of the meltdown, tens of thousands were forced to evacuate. Only recently did TEPCO (Tokyo Electronic Power company), who has been monitoring the plant, admit that the reactors were still in fact leaking harmful radiation into the Pacific Ocean.
TEPCO Company admitted that soil samples at the Fukushima plant are showing up with other high level readings of cesium-137, tritium, and strontium-90. Tokyo confirmed that levels of cancer-causing cesium-134 are showing up in groundwater at rates 90-11- times higher than before the meltdown. The high levels of cesium-134 show that the destruction has only just begun, as the Pacific Ocean will more increasingly begin to act as a sponge to the nuclear radiation.
What some people forget is that our water system is one of the most interconnected systems on the planet, next to air. When part of our water system is contaminated, the contamination often does not stay confined to man-made invisible boundaries, such as the Pacific Coast. Everything is connected on this astounding planet, and contaminations, especially of the radioactive nature, find their way to destinations far beyond their origin. The water supply not only supplies drinking water for humans and animals, it irrigates crops. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) admitted in a public health statement that when the supply is contaminated, it influences everything.
This iodine-129 that's being leaked into the oceans enters the air from sea sprays and iodine gases. Now another one of our vital systems is contaminated with a substance with a 16 million year half life. The iodine in the air can combine with any number of particles in the air, including water, and can enter the soil, surface water, or vegetation when they fall as rain over land Iodine is able to remain unbroken in the environment is because it combines with organic material in the soil. Any plant growing in this soil will grow with it inside them, including corn. Since 99% of all the farmed animals raised and slaughtered in the United States come from CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations), which feed cows corn (even though they are not genetically designed to eat corn), that means that almost all of our meat supply will have this iodine contamination of the soil if the contamination reaches our food supply on land.
The entire West Coast food supply is currently contaminated, and will be for endless generations. This contamination is likely to spread expansively, if something is not done. We are entering a new way of life that includes higher rates of illness, disease, and mortality.
Earlier predictions of the outcome of the length of this disaster were lenient compared to what we are beginning to realize. Because of a long-lived radionuclide called iodine-129, which has an incredible half-life of 16 million years, the nightmare of Fukushima is only beginning for the ecosystems of planet Earth. The U.S. National Library of Medicine reported in June 2011 that iodine-129 had significantly elevated concentrations in surface water offshore Fukushima. Since then, not much has been heard in mainstream media about the ongoing spread of radiation.
So why aren't we hearing about this in the media?
People always talk about what is happening right now, and often fail to discuss the future and the end result of events that pertain to our environmental contamination. The human race is not above nature, but we are nature. What is composed of and what comes from, must be. Every being on this planet is not only apart of planet Earth, but apart of this incredible universe. Humans are the only species that display self-destructive behavior, and if we do not find a way to work with our ecosystems, resources, and wildlife, it will surely lead to the destruction of the human race, and I can guarantee you that life will go on without us.
Farm Forward calculation based on U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2002 Census of Agriculture, June 2004; and ibid
http://www.naturalnews.com/041200_Fukushima_radiation_poisoning_contaminated_food.html#ixzz2y8AQNzMd
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