Rancher saves Fukushima's Radioactive Cows!

Defying Japan, Rancher Saves Fukushima’s Radioactive Cows

AMIE, Japan — His may be one of the world’s more quixotic protests.

Angered by what he considers the Japanese government’s attempts to sweep away the inconvenient truths of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Masami Yoshizawa has moved back to his ranch in the radioactive no-man’s land surrounding the devastated plant. He has no neighbors, but plenty of company: hundreds of abandoned cows he has vowed to protect from the government’s kill order.

A large bulldozer — meant to keep out agricultural officials — stands at the entrance to the newly renamed Ranch of Hope like a silent sentinel, guarding a driveway lined with bleached cattle bones and handwritten protest signs.

“Let the Cows of Hope Live!” says one. Another, written on a yellow-painted cow skull, declares: “Nuclear Rebellion!” Inside the now overcrowded ranch, bellowing cows spill from the overflowing cattle sheds into the well-worn pasture, and even trample the yard of the warmly lit farmhouse.

“These cows are living testimony to the human folly here in Fukushima,” said Mr. Yoshizawa, 59, a gruff but eloquent man with a history of protest against his government. “The government wants to kill them because it wants to erase what happened here, and lure Japan back to its pre-accident nuclear status quo. I am not going to let them.”

Full story at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/asia/defying-japan-rancher-saves-fukushimas-radioactive-cows.html?_r=0

His story is amazing, he is still rescuing them! What a way to protest.

 

Glow in the dark cows ?!?

COOL ! Should save a bit on the lighting bills..

  

Think of the kool leather jackets?  Women's shoes?  Purses?  Glow in the dark backpacks?  Dog collars. And ornate cowboy boots.

Screw that -- glow-in-the-dark cheeseburgers!

Buffalo chips and meadow muffins could replace fireworks.

Yikes.

Nice story. Good to know there are still some people who'll stand up to governments and do the right thing.

Video game geek here. I was thinking of the scene in Destroy All Humans where you can use the radioactive cows as bombs....

I'll go back to my games now.

 

PLUG those dairy cows in, and they could be powering their own milking plant !!!

THEY could then have their own "off the grid" dairy !

 

jaded fox wrote:Video game geek here. I was thinking of the scene in Destroy All Humans where you can use the radioactive cows as bombs....

I'll go back to my games now.

Yeah, Jaded!!!! Woo-hoo, she's even posting. :D Nice to see you. You are the jaded from Shortnews, right? That's a pretty unique username.

Yep, it's the one from shortnews. Finally got the messages.

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