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Post by Andre on Jul 17, 2013 5:18:44 GMT -5
This is an ear of corn grown lately in the Fukushima area. Did anyone already seen an ear like this without any nuclear effect ?
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jul 17, 2013 6:22:11 GMT -5
All the Fukushima Mutant Vegetable pics are complete bullshit. I see ears of corn like that all the time. They are very common especially in old northeastern flints and southwestern flint and flour corn varieties.
I guess it's just easier to take a sensationalist picture of an INCREDIBLY COMMON misshapen twin ear of corn or a lumpy fused tomato or a double peach or a mega-bloom dandelion than look at the actual REAL damage the radiation is causing like increased local cancer rates, marine ecosystem effects, etc.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 17, 2013 10:02:33 GMT -5
Here's a couple of twin cobs from my garden last year:
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Post by Andre on Jul 17, 2013 10:32:14 GMT -5
All the Fukushima Mutant Vegetable pics are complete bullshit. Yes I think you're right. In the same article, they talk about un-normal tomatoes and they show a picture of ReiseTomatoes known for their strange shapes.
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Post by steev on Jul 17, 2013 22:58:48 GMT -5
Umm, Joseph, aren't you upwind from the nuclear-testing grounds that are alleged to have "gotten" John Wayne, and contaminated red Fiesta ware?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 17, 2013 23:13:48 GMT -5
Umm, Joseph, aren't you upwind from the nuclear-testing grounds that are alleged to have "gotten" John Wayne, and contaminated red Fiesta ware? <Begin evil mood music> Bwah... Haaa... Haaa... I wondered if anyone would catch the irony.<end music> Nobody was supposed to remember that after 60 years. Our late summer monsoonal weather pattern typically creates winds that blow directly from the testing grounds to my farm. We are having one of those weather patterns now. And all this time I thought that it was the sunlight that burns me up. Our community still has higher than expected rates of some types of cancer.
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Post by blueadzuki on Jul 17, 2013 23:20:20 GMT -5
I wouldn't worry about that much. When digging up my garden last year, I unearthed an old grape green glass bead I must have dropped there years ago. That's WAAY more radioactive (I ran a Geiger counter over one in high school and according to that, each bead emits 4,000 alpha particles per second) than any fiesta ware glaze (it's also uranium oxide but the glass tends to have a LOT more than the glazes do. It must have been buried there for at least a decade or so (it's been that long since the person who got those things (old Czech stock from the 1960's and 70's) showed up at any rock and mineral show. And I never had any problems (well none with mutated veggies.....).
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Post by steev on Jul 18, 2013 1:20:52 GMT -5
Sorry to hear your community's higher than expected rates of cancer. Personally, I think it's a shame that there are expected rates of cancer. I may be unrealistic. but I think we would be largely cancer-free if we were in tune with nature.
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Post by DarJones on Jul 20, 2013 19:08:47 GMT -5
There is a background radiation level caused by natural radioactive materials in the earth's crust and by cosmic rays arriving from space. This background radiation level rose significantly as a result of nuclear weapon detonations over the last 70 years, but it was still enough to be a problem even before the nuclear weapons. The primary causes of cancer are not radiation related. Tobacco, dioxin, and other chemicals are a more significant problem except in some areas where the radiation level is significantly higher than average.
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Post by steev on Jul 22, 2013 10:27:06 GMT -5
Tobacco, dioxin, and other chemicals fit my idea of "out-of-tune with nature".
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Post by cesarz on Jul 23, 2013 0:45:09 GMT -5
Here is an heirloom corn that have that same characteristic from SSE
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Post by richardw on Jul 23, 2013 1:02:06 GMT -5
What seed savers is that one from Cesar?
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Post by coppice on Jul 23, 2013 6:59:20 GMT -5
Fukushima Glow-in-the-dark irradiated corn will grow triffids if replanted. The the pod people will eat your grandchildren...
Magic beans anyone?
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Post by cesarz on Jul 27, 2013 21:37:33 GMT -5
What seed savers is that one from Cesar? From Seed Savers Exchange and also from Diggers Club
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jul 29, 2013 14:43:29 GMT -5
hmmmm.... very interesting.... Well, I've YET to have a "twin" cob of corn, but I won't be surprised if I do. Stranger things have happened... As for cancer rates, I often ponder what balance can be achieved with a diet that is high in antioxidants. ::interruption:: There is a hummingbird on our butterfly bush outside the window!!! WOW!!!! ANYway... There was piece on PBS about a year ago about the Chernobyl site. Completely toxic to humans but both plant and animal life are thriving. The fish are unusually large, but that is because they haven't been impacted by fishing. Mammals, birds, reptiles, etc... all doing unusually well. Love the picture and story anyhow. It's amazing how many people fall for that stuff.
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