The amount of radioactive cesium was accumulated in the muscles of the calf area of the alert within 20 mile radius from TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the correlation can be seen that 20 to 30 times the amount of radioactive cesium in the blood, Tohoku Univ. and 大阪医科大, Yamagata, Niigata, such as found in the survey. Such as estimating the amount of radioactive material from the blood in the body, it may be applied to humans.
The professor of the study, Aging and Cancer Tohoku Institute Fukumoto (Pathology) from the group. Although culling is underway in the area of feral cattle guard, of the cattle were slaughtered in late August to mid November, and dissected on the consent of the owner of 47 head, muscles and internal organs, examined the radioactive material contained in the blood.
Results, and is measured from the thigh of the ox 1800 Becquerel discovered 60 becquerels per kilogram from the blood, detected radioactive cesium in muscle of blood from 20 to 30 times.Organs such as liver, muscles in about 10 times lower than in the thyroid was seen to accumulate most of the cesium was measured.
Yes,that’s true. They once promised to save the animals, but in fact, they have started to kill the 30 or 60cattles in the fence as an experiment by Kitasato Univ.
The Government of Japan are trying to use as an excuse for not helping the livestock: the killing of farm animals, pigs and cows happens every single day. Kachiku-Otasuke-Tai.org are saying something different : This is not the same as what the Legislators would have you believe. The livestock are the same victimes of nuclear accident by TEPCO like us.
“I know the cows have lost their economic value since they’ve been exposed to radiation. But I think there must be a way to allow them to live. As a cattle breeder, I cannot leave them to die,” he said. “We have to catch them by winter.” And, so the farmers were tricked into capturing the cattle, only to watch them killed ( I will not use the word : euthanize.) or penned and left to starve, denied food and water. And, the ones sent to study? Yamane will kill them for his research.
KORIYAMA, Fukushima — Pursuing research on radiation’s effects on animals has been suggested as a way to keep livestock animals roaming the no-entry zone near the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant from being killed or starving in the harsh winter.
Nearly 2,000 cows and other livestock are estimated to still be in the 20-kilometer radius no-entry zone around the crippled power plant.
The plan is being pushed by members of the citizens’ group “Kibo-no-Bokujo — Fukushima Project” (ranch of hope — Fukushima project). On Oct. 21, around 30 people including local livestock farmers, government legislators and veterinarians met in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, to discuss the issue.
Masami Yoshizawa, 57, who has about 330 high-quality beef cow at his livestock farm situated in the no-entry zone, said he cannot bear to abandon the animals.
“I know the cows have lost their economic value since they’ve been exposed to radiation. But I think there must be a way to allow them to live. As a cattle breeder, I cannot leave them to die,” he said. “We have to catch them by winter.”
Meanwhile, a 54-year-old woman who had beef cattle in the no-entry zone said tearfully, “I freed 30 of mycows before evacuating. I believe they’re still alive.”
There have also, however, been reports of cows and pigs that are now living wild making their way into residents’ left-behind homes.
Earlier, in May of this year, university researchers asked the central government to let livestock exposed to radiation in Fukushima Prefecture live for use in research. Senior Vice Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Nobutaka Tsutsui expressed support for the idea, but almost no concrete measures have been mapped out.
Yoshihisa Yamane, head of the vet association, said, “It is important to make effective use of the animals for research, also from the viewpoint of animal protection, rather than just destroying them.” And, of course, Dr. Yamane would say this. He is an active animal researcher. He is also the president of the Japan Veterinary Medical Association. Can you guess what was behind the denial of animal rescue and feeding? Yamane. He would like to do research on them, of course.
The group will focus on such areas as the distribution of contamination inside the cows, the degree of decline in internal exposure when they are fed with untainted items, and how radioactive materials transfer from soil to pasture and then to the meat of the animals, Ito said.
The key word in the second paragraph is MEAT. They will “sacrifice” or shall I say ” kill” these animals for this study. As soon as Yamane’s name was attached to this study, it meant death to all the animals.
Group to study cattle’s radiation exposure in Fukushima no-go zone
TOKYO (Kyodo) — A group of veterinarians and other researchers will soon begin studying cattle’s radiation exposure at farms in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture within a no-go zone near the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, participants said Tuesday.
Many of the roughly 3,500 cattle at farms within the 20-kilometers radius of the plant are believed to be living in the wild after their owners evacuated in March in the wake of the country’s worst ever nuclear disaster. About 70 cows, however, have been recaptured and are now being raised on farms in parts of Minamisoma within the zone, according to the city office.
The group, including radiobiologist Nobuhiko Ito, a professor at Kitasato University, and members of the Japan Veterinary Medical Association will visit cooperating farms on a regular basis and study the extent of cattle’s contamination with radioactive materials, they said.
The study, which they plan to have subsidized by the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry, is expected to offer clues about the impact of internal radiation exposure on humans, as well as help livestock farmers take antiradiation measures in the future, they said.
The group will focus on such areas as the distribution of contamination inside the cows, the degree of decline in internal exposure when they are fed with untainted items, and how radioactive materials transfer from soil to pasture and then to the meat of the animals, Ito said.
The radiation-exposed cattle in Minamisoma have been recaptured since summer as farmers sought to raise them for research purposes despite a government instruction in May to slaughter them, under which about 250 have been culled with the consent of their owners.
Apart from the group’s study, a team of Tohoku University and other researchers is poised to begin a study on decontaminating cattle by the end of this year, they said.
Yoshihisa Yamane, head of the vet association, said, “It is important to make effective use of the animals for research, also from the viewpoint of animal protection, rather than just destroying them.”
(Mainichi Japan) November 15, 2011
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/11/15/20111115p2g00m0dm014000c.html
