Abandoned Cattle Lay Dead and Dying Near Fukushima - April 10, 2011 - Sad :(

[wundermaus]

Run time: 01:43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVAorP4J5L4   Posted on YouTube: April 14, 2011 By YouTube Member: Sheilaaliens Views on YouTube: 2208   Posted on DU: April 16, 2011 By DU Member: wundermaus Views on DU: 1536

 
WARNING - this is graphic scenes of dead and dying animals.

Take a glimpse of a our nuclear future:
Substitute the cows for humans.

Is it time yet to put an end to the madness?
Just asking...

[hedgehog]

1. As a guess - I think these animals are dying of simple starvation and thirst -

they should have been at least released before everyone left.

I live near 3 nuke plants. If we ever have to bug out, the dogs will go with us and the cats if I can find them. The best I can do for the chickens is to open the hen house and leave the feed bins open. There is jsut no way to catch and carry 30 some hens and roosters.

It's really insane to have to live with that in the back of my head.

[JohnyCanuck]

8. Suppose the man tells you, you have to leave the cats and dogs behind

I understand that is what happened to the people who had to evacuate from around Fuksashima. They were ordered not to bring their pets with them when they left because it was a practical impossibility to thoroughly remove radioactive contamination from the pets's fur.

[aquart]

2. I'm not going to watch this. I know appalling things happen.

And I agree about starvation and thirst. It was monstrous to leave them that way.

[LandR]

4. lets hope whoever made this video..

..was able to let them out or provide them with some food and water. pretty horrible.

[wundermaus]

5. I appreciate your reluctance to view the video...

but the statement that they died of thirst and starvation does not negate the fact that their deaths were caused by the evacuation of people who were entrusted to take care of them. They may not die directly from radiation poisoning but their deaths were caused by the perceived threat of dying from expose to radiation by the human caretakers. They would almost assuredly die from radiation poisoning if they continued to consume contaminated water and food. The objective of posting this video was to show a relentless pattern of behavior where humans abandon the helpless and dependent among us to fend for themselves. With few exceptions, at the level of life and death, survival overrides all other considerations and responsibilities. I see the abandonment of those cows as example of our values regarding life; as if they were people just like you and me. I see the abandonment of the helpless people of Katrina - the New Orleans Hurricane disaster. I see radiation as natures way of showing us who is in charge. I see the exploiting people of the first world thrown into the radioactive pit with the helpless people of the third world. Over the centuries, we did not learn to take care of each other, to keep our nests clean. Instead, we fouled the earth with our greed and selfishness. Ah, nature and death, the great equalizers.

[JohnyCanuck]

9. +1

[aquart]

10. I didn't say what I would like to do to the people who left them

But Japan does have some active volcanoes that might require a sacrifice.

[freshwest]

12. I agree.

[greiner3]

3. "Abandoned Cattle Lay Dead and Dying Near Fukushima"

Next week's Quarter Pounder at MceeDee's.

[MsPithy]

6. ALL OF THIS PAIN AND SUFFERING

MUST BE ADDED TO THE COST OF NUCLEAR ENERGY! I'm not shouting, I'm screaming. The crushing weight of the agony felt by these animals, all the abandoned animals, all the future cancer victims, all the human birth defects, settles on our shoulders if we continue to allow governments and the corporations that own them to deny us clean renewable energy.

[TheMadMonk]

13. And screaming like a teabagger gets a teabagger's response.

Also known as "If you demand the impossible, the disasterously possible will happen instead."

These animals are in the straights they are in, not because of any actual, clear and present danger, but because of fears that have virtually no basis in objective reality. With only a modicum of precaution those animals could have been evacuated at any time in the last month, cared for on site, or euthenased if they showed significant contamination.

The costs you insist on adding to the price of nuclear power are not being extracted right now, because of that nuclear power, but because of your fear of it.

Further ponderings.

Why did the American Navy units present take off like cut cats instead of steaming straight to the reactors and laying cables to power the then still functional cooling systems of the reactors? Built to operate in the midst of an all out nuclear war, they ran from a little radioactive steam. Please explain?

There are viable, not perfect, but viable methods for the safe storage and disposal of nuclear materials good for several thousand years at least. Certainly good enough that there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to store any spent fuel on site with an operational reactor. It should not be physically possible for that part of this disaster to be occuring right now. So why is it possible? At least in part, I think, because the public's fear can be manipulated for profit or advancement by parties in all camps, including anti's who choose to weild the "Sword of Damocles".

And there are in fact, still experimental, but demonstrably viable methods which can be used to destroy all long term radioactivity, reducing storage time requrements for what remains to only a few centuries, which can be accomplished with simple encasement in garden variety stainless steel and concrete. So why is that research in this direction tends to disappear into oblivion just as promising results emerge? Not retracted, disproven or discredited in the usual fashion, but simply no further publication.


All of the day to day threats presented by nuclear power and its byproducts are eminently manageable. Workable solutions exist. But whilst public fears can be manipulated to keep demanding the impossible from nuclear power, the SEARCH for a sollution to the nuclear disposal issue will forever be more profitable than ever delivering.

[chillspike]

7. I hope the people who made the video let them out.

[boston bean]

11. that was my hope, as well. nt