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Contaminated reindeer fed to mink

Kathy

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An extremely educational powerpoint presentation by Dr. Gordon Edwards and Robert Del Tredici on the dangers of nuclear power and its waste.

http://www.ccnr.org/stockholm-2007/

Check it out. 77 pages, mostly pictures with audio of lecture given in Stockholm in April 2007.

The reindeer contaminated with cesium (page 11) after Chernobyl fallout were monitored for excessive amounts of Cesium. Animals that were over the "allowable amounts" in food for humans were thrown in a freezer. The doctors comment on how these contaminated animals were disposed of,

you'll like this one flounder,

these animals were given to the local mink farms.

Here is a comment from a blog:
The remarkable ability of lichens to reflect and amplify changes in the atmospheric environment around them was first demonstrated in 1965, “when a study was launched to learn more about the effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests. The plan was to sample people from all over the world, with Lapps serving as the control group. After all, it was assumed, where else but in the frozen tundra could one find people whose innards were so unspoiled by the poisons of progress.” Unfortunately for the study, and even more so for the poor Lapps, analysis showed that their tissues contained 55 times the radioactivity of
Finns living just to the south. As it turns out, the lichens consumed by reindeer that were eaten by the Lapp population are efficient concentrators of radioactive cesium and strontium, the byproducts of above-ground nuclear testing. The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 was even more dramatic. “Within eight months of the accident, meat from reindeer in Norway and Sweden that had fed primarily on lichens had over ten times the legal limit of measurable radiation. In some areas, it exceeded the limit by twenty times. The reindeer were slaughtered and the carcasses were sold to mink and fox farms. Be forewarned if you are offered a ‘hot’ deal on a fur coat from Russia.” (Hudler, pp. 227-228)

Funny how the first transmissible mink encephalopathy showed up, reportedly, in 1947 in the USA... just around the time that the USA was enriching uranium/plutonium and testing atomic bombs, mostly in the atmosphere.
 
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