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Conjoint peaches found in Hiroshima

Conjoint peaches found in Hiroshima

In Fukuyama city, Hiroshima, conjoint peaches were harvested.

↓ Location [Link]

Conjoint peaches found in Hiroshima 2

The dimeter of the top part is about 5cm, the bottom one is about 7cm. Mr. Araki, who harvested these peaches comments, he has been growing peaches for 10 years but he hasn’t seen such ones.

He named them Momotaro and Momoko. They measured cesium from peaches harvested in Fukushima and Yamanashi in eastern Japan. (cf. Japan exports Fukushima peach and has Imperial family consume it)

See also

TBS reported it in the morning of 8/16/2012, but the news is already deleted. [Link]

 

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  1. http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/conjoint-peaches-found-in-hiroshima/

    FUKUSHIMA DIARY FR – Des pèches soudées trouvées à Hiroshima
    Par Mochizuki, le 16 août 2012.

    (Photo)

    Dans la ville de Fukuyama, à Hiroshima, on a récolté des pèches soudées.

    ↓ Localisation [http://goo.gl/maps/giISR]
    (carte)

    Le diamètre de la partie supérieure est d’environ 5 cm, le bas 7 cm. M. Araki, qui les a cueillies, ajoute qu’il fait pousser des pèches depuis 10 ans mais qu’il n’avait jamais vu ça.

    Il les a nommées Momotaro et Momoko. On avait mesuré le césium des pèches de Fukushima et Yamanashi, à l’Est du Japon. (cf. http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/japan-exports-fukushima-peach-and-has-imperial-family-consume-it/)

    TBS l’avait rapporté dans la matinée du 16 août 2012 mais la nouvelle a déjà été retirée. [http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye5107606.html]

  2. OK, I’m in Hiroshima. This does not sound good. If it’s in the peaches, it’s in everything. Milk, lettuce, vegies. This sucks!

  3. How could any piece of fruit look so cute, and yet be reported as bad? The grower has no problem biting into the peach directly from the tree and the Imperial Family has received them and eaten them. The Emperor has had heart problems since Fukushima spread celsium-137 across the nation and the unknowing world, but, he is doing well. The family has moved away from Tokyo; but we are assured that the water from the tap is drinkable and the octopus sold in the fish markets are not contaminated. So, the fruit and the seafood is sold in Japan and exported to nations, like Thailand and the USA. As long as their are living people who purchase unaware because the media does not inform them, there is money to be made. That is all that is important.

    1. Michele,
      Akihito has had heart problems for years, he frequents the Hayama Heart Center near the Emporers Summer Palace.

  4. I am not trying to downplay radiation or the ongoing tragedy in Japan, but I’ve recently bought peaches much like that in Northern California. Granted, they were “oddballs” and certainly not common, but they were definitely conjoined.

    Not to say that radiation levels aren’t affecting the fruit in Japan, but Hiroshima seems quite a distance away for radiation to be the only possible cause.

    1. perhaps you are unaware that substantial fallout has been falling in North America, especially the west coast, and is evident in the increased incidence of mutations in flora, fauna and infant morbidity since 311.

      Facebook group Mutation Watch

      Sherman-Mangano study in 2011 on infant mortality

      http://optimalprediction.com/wp/

    2. At the bottom of each page there is a prompt with an arrow that says “older entries”. Use it and you will see that people have been sending in pictures of mutated fruits and veggies for over a year now. Do you seriously think that California’s produce is not affected after 17 straight months of uninterrupted air, pollen, fog, and soil cesium/mox exposure?

      You can also use the search box function located on the right hand side of the page to find all the info you need on the ongoing produce, tea, seafood, and autombile radiation troubles; not to mention the many articles about the tree,insect, and butterly mutations.

      The Fukushima Diary archives are your friend. Iori went to a lot of hard work for you to see them. Please use them.

    3. Radiation particles like cesium, travel with the winds and 1000 km is not that far. French nuclear tests fallouts in the Pacific have been linked (proven legally) to cause cancers to peoples even much further away than 1000km.
      And how about Chernobyl fallouts? 1000 km is nothing. Thyroid cancers in villages 3000km away.
      Of course, there are more fallouts in the 80 first km, but then, still, the clouds don’t stop their, they are just less around the plant.
      Ok, you can think that there is no proof or link but the people get sick every single time (no exception) in every nuclear accident where the winds are blowing and yes the impact is less 10,000km away, but it is still there. So today, Fukushima still emits 10000000-becquerels-every-hour, if the clouds that carry the stuff fly over Hiroshima that’s all you need.
      And no, it does not required million of becquerel to cause a genetic mutiation or cause cancer. It is random. The more the stuff flies around, the more it will cause problems.

    4. I addressed these kinds of posts a long time ago in a previous comment. If my understanding is correct, deformations are caused by genetic mutations, or missing necessary genes, and these can occur “naturally”. I say “naturally”, because it’s assumed that natural deterioration of genes occurs over time. Radiation causes damage to DNA and genes, thus increasing the occurrence rate of these mutations and defects.

      What this means is that, if there is constant widespread damage to everything on a genetic level (and there already has been, over the past century or so, hence my hesitation to use the word “naturally” because relevant samples are likely already contaminated), sooner or later everything will end up missing vital genes and have grotesque defects.

      Anyone, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

      1. I feel your right and its scary to know it can happen and occur in places that other don’t see in other places when the wind carries these radiation particles around the world. it makes it worse in food. and where it falls on the soil.

  5. The tone of the reporting is so cheerful. If I haven’t seen deformed peaches for last 10 years and suddenly showed up a year after the nuclear disaster, I would link the two of them: radiation and deformity. Yet this person named the peaches “momo-taro and momoko” as something nice happened and ate it with a comment “very sweet.” Your peaches are probably contaminated! I received the newspaper from Japan recently. There isn’t even a small article about Fukushima Daiichi or radiation. Japanese media and government are trying to create an illusion that everything is fine and peachy while the fact is opposite of that.

    1. What else can they do? When you’re on the Titanic, you surely want a reassuring word from Captain Smith that the ship is unsinkable. At some point you’ll know he’s full of seawater; but since the end is inevitable, what’s wrong with an extension of comfort, however false.

  6. The reporting says nothing negative? Its almost a celebration of the deformity, and an endorsement of deformed fruit! The farmer bites in happily and cheers! Truly some brainwashing over there.

    1. Brain-washing or not, radiation levels in hiroshima are lower than in most of the rest of the world. Good example of dooms-sayers taking advantage of random events which also happen elsewhere as Dave above points out.

      1. Bob,
        “radiation levels in hiroshima are lower than in most of the rest of the world. ”
        Wha…?
        Bob, “doom-sayers”?…”taking advantage of random events”??
        What “advantage” is “Taken”, Bob?
        You Have Not Been Paying attention, Bob.
        …
        The Government is actively hauling radioactive wastes, sewage sludge,
        and transporting them to every prefecture,
        including all the way down in the Ryukyu Islands, in Okinawa,
        to BURN the waste, so that All Prefectures share an EQUAL Burden
        of Waste disposal, blasting the radiation Back into the Air….
        That is the True Picture, Bob.
        It is mass extermination of the Japanese (over-)population.
        It is mass extermination, intentionally.
        This is Modern Crisis Management.
        Eliminate the Suffering….
        the suffering people, that is.
        Then, no more Crises.
        Bob. Getting any Education, Bob?

        1. They burn the waste, so what? Filters in these sort of inceneration facilities are more than able to filter out any radioactive contaminants. Oh, I forget due to local protests in those places they are not burning waste as quickly as planned so the disaster rubble cannot be cleared quickly to restore communities that are not impacted by radiation (except neligible amounts) – that’s the real shame.

      2. Hi bob. I take issue with the idea that the nuclear incident was a ‘random’ event or even an accident. Also, I would be afraid to live so close to an ever-present source of new radiation, but surely there are many like this unaccounted for around the world.

        1. You miss-understand – I mean random events of conjoint peaches… Google for it and you’ll find a few instances elsewhere as well. It doesn’t mean all places that have conjoint peaches have nuclear melt-downs.

    1. Disney World!
      “If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. When you wish upon a star, as dreamers do.”

      Reality is difficult for people like Bob.

  8. This does happen naturally sometimes. It doesn’t mean that the end is upon us. I have seen plums and cherries and other stonefruit like this in new zealand, a long way from any radioactive contamination. The fact that these fruits have grown in hiroshima does not mean difinitively that they are the result of contamination. were there any other samples? any other mutations?

  9. is it just a one off? this happens in humans too. albinos, siamese twins, kibs with extra fingers and toes. not exactly normal but nor is it unprecedented.

    1. nop, it does not happen naturally that ALL elements of nature are ALL being affected at the same time.
      Peaches here, fish there, butterflies, worms, trees, it is all of Nature that has been affected. You must be blind to deny.

  10. I would think if that is scary think about Nuclear plants that are still running and there is a Nuclear war in the middle east. and all the fall out comes sitting over here as a nuclear winter approaches. that is scary and Nuclear power plant becoming also sitting bombs. Don\t want to be bad with any one here. but all of this can kill all of us. we are either it’s distressing either we are destroying our or one way hope we can make it better by not using Nuclear bombs and missiles to destroy our world. we have a choice to have peace work in future generations to come.

  11. I would think if that is scary think about Nuclear plants that are still running and there is a Nuclear war in the middle east. and all the fall out comes sitting over here as a nuclear winter approaches. that is scary and Nuclear power plant becoming also sitting bombs. Don’t want to be bad with any one here. but all of this can kill all of us. we are either it’s distressing in a way either we are destroying our own world or in a way We can hope we can make it better by not using Nuclear bombs and missiles to destroy our world. we have a choice to have peace work in future generations to come.

  12. bob typed these pixels of light: “Filters in these sort of inceneration facilities are more than able to filter out any radioactive contaminants.”

    SP: They do a very poor job of filtering radiation. Maybe 66% is captured. One third of the radiation is turned into even finer particles and blows with the wind. The 23 plus incinerators in Tokyo alone have doomed 37 million people to horrible illnesses and death. It won’t be long before the weak and the old will be dropping like flies.

    It’s no secret…even the Malaysians know the score:

    “Meanwhile in Tokyo the Japanese government admits that the incineration of radioactive debris shipped from the tsunami disaster zone, from 2011 to 2013, will emit at least 2 billion becquerals of radiation into the air (according to my calculations) (4; 5). Yes, you read that correctly: TWO BILLION. Compared to the FNPP disaster that is not much at all, that number could end up being lower, or even much higher, depending on how much debris is burned, how radioactive it is, whether the equipment malfunctions, and so on. The curious point is that the Japanese government admits they are intentionally emitting radiation into densely populated urban environments.”

    –http://charlessantiago.org/

    Nuclear madness in Japan.

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