This video was presented at the Institute for Strategic Leadership‘s “Carry On Fukushima” program in Tokyo on 7/21/11. It includes voices from food producers in the area around the still-leaking Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant:
Ohashi may need to look outside Fukushima now for organic suppliers for his bread. He says we need to learn to coexist with radiation.
Suzuki and Fukumoto are leaving the idyllic farming community of Kaidomari to live in balance with nature elsewhere.
Hongo won’t sell his potentially contaminated rice this year, but he’s eating it himself.
Yoshizawa wants to save his 300 irradiated dairy cows from a death sentence.
Yamamoto was a farming intern when the disaster struck. She decided to stay and volunteer at an evacuation center.
Yoshida is committed to stay and continue farming on the land his family has cultivated for 200 years.
Hiroaki Yoshida had his rice tested at several labs. None of it showed any detectible radiation.
Despite testing clean, Yoshida struggles to find new customers for rice grown on the southern outskirts of Fukushima.
To fight a dropoff in sales, Yuko and Hiroaki Yoshida bring their rice and mochi into Tokyo every weekend for the Aoyama Farmers Market.
Grandma Yoshida says anything you eat could be radioactive, but you still have to eat.
