{"id":489,"date":"2011-09-21T09:46:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T00:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2019-09-19T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T22:07:16","slug":"fukushima-farmers-keep-calm-and-carry-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/21\/fukushima-farmers-keep-calm-and-carry-on-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima farmers keep calm and carry on [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ed M. Koziarski
\nGrist Magazine<\/a>
\n9\/20\/2011<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Round, rough-skinned pears fill our Fukushima City apartment. Before the pears it was enormous, impossibly succulent peaches. Apples will be next.<\/p>\n

Prior to the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant six months ago, people all across Japan would send seasonal Fukushima-grown fruit to their relatives and neighbors. But now those outside Fukushima are too wary of possible radioactive contamination in produce grown here — and the fruit piles up.<\/p>\n

The locals live with the risk. With a surplus of crops growing in the adjacent countryside, the fruits circulate in Fukushima like proverbial American fruitcakes at Christmas. We conspired to regift a box of pears to one neighbor, but they beat us to it and gave us another box. So we eat them all.<\/p>\n

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by Ed M. Koziarski
\nGrist Magazine<\/a>
\n9\/20\/2011<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Round, rough-skinned pears fill our Fukushima City apartment. Before the pears it was enormous, impossibly succulent peaches. Apples will be next.<\/p>\n

Prior to the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant six months ago, people all across Japan would send seasonal Fukushima-grown fruit to their relatives and neighbors. But now those outside Fukushima are too wary of possible radioactive contamination in produce grown here — and the fruit piles up.<\/p>\n

The locals live with the risk. With a surplus of crops growing in the adjacent countryside, the fruits circulate in Fukushima like proverbial American fruitcakes at Christmas. We conspired to regift a box of pears to one neighbor, but they beat us to it and gave us another box. So we eat them all.<\/p>\n

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