Western Japanese meat distributer buys bunch of cheap Fukushima cattle

A meat distributer in Nishinomiya Hyogo bought 192 cesium beef from Fukushima.
The area distribution center in Nishinomiya accepted 219 Fukushima cattle from 311 to July in total.
Most of them are assumed to be for this cesium distributer. In 2009 ,they accepted 21 cattle from Fukushima. In 2010 ,they accepted only 3 cattle from Fukushima. They are increasing the ratio of Fukushima cattle after 311.

Kakogawa meat center also accepted more Fukushima cattle than usual. After April ,they accepted 64 cattle from Fukushima.

411 cattle in Fukushima turned out to have eaten contaminated hay and this distributer bought 192 of them.
Fukushima cattle is depreciating because of the harmful “rumor”.

(Source)

原発事故後に仕入れ急増 西宮食肉センター

放射性セシウムに汚染された稲わらを食べたことが新たに判明した福島県産の肉牛411頭のうち、兵庫県に出荷された192頭すべてが西宮市食肉センターで解体されていた問題で、仕入れた同市の食肉卸業者が3月の福島第1原発事故後、福島県からの仕入れを急増させていたことが18日、西宮市への取材で分かった。市は流通経路などとともに経緯を詳しく調べる。
西宮市によると、同センターは年間約1万6千頭の牛を解体。このうち福島産は2009年度21頭、10年度3頭に対し、11年度は震災後の4カ月半余りで219頭に上る。大半が今回、192頭を仕入れた業者によるものとみられる。
兵庫県生活衛生課によると、県が所管する加古川食肉センターでも福島産が増え、4月以降、64頭を処理したという。
福島産が急増した理由について、JA全農兵庫県本部は「東北の食肉処理施設が被災したため、関西での依頼が増えているのでは」と推測。また、福島県産牛の価格は「震災直後に暴落したが、セシウム汚染問題の発覚後、さらに落ち込んでいる」としている。
西宮市は18日、この業者に事情を聴き対応を協議。流通経路を把握した上で19日夕に調査結果を発表するという。
(上杉順子、桑名良典)
(2011/07/19 06:30)

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I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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