Canadians track Japanese tsunami debris, but won't systematically test salmon for radiation
The Maritime Museum of B.C. has created a Facebook page devoted to collecting photos of debris from last year's Japanese tsunami.
The majority of the material floating across the Pacific Ocean is not expected to arrive in B.C. until 2013 and 2014.
What I find interesting is that there still doesn't appear to be a Facebook page concerning the potential effect of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the Canadian food supply.
Earlier this month, Straight reporter Carlito Pablo wrote an article noting that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has no plans to systematically test next year's wild salmon for radioactivity.
These fish travel through the same waters as the flotsam and jetsam coming from Japan, where a devastating nuclear accident crippled the Fukushima power plant.
It's okay to keep records of the garbage—but as far as the Conservative government is concerned, it appears to be not okay to examine if any of it is ending up in our digestive tracts.
Comments
16 Comments
Hans Goldberg
Apr 29, 2012 at 12:20pm
The total and complete indifference of this government to the wellbeing of the Canadian people is beyond description.
Mark E. Mark
Apr 29, 2012 at 12:41pm
How about contacting the agency for comments?
Martin Dunphy
Apr 29, 2012 at 1:14pm
Mark E. Mark:
If you click on the link for the previous Straight story provided in the article above you can read the response of the CFIA.
Birdy
Apr 29, 2012 at 4:19pm
How much does is cost to test?
I ask that on every one of these radiation testing stories.
If you want to solve a problem, a rough estimate of what's involved is a good place to start.
Put a number out there, then use that crowdsourcing website to raise the cash. It would solve the problem and piss off Michael Mann, win/win.
Or you could just point at Harper and call him a poo-poo head, which while true, doesn't actually accomplish anything.
Colin A.
Apr 29, 2012 at 6:56pm
The government wants people to die. Death and Disease is an industry, and business is booming.
worriedcanadian
Apr 29, 2012 at 7:20pm
I can't believe how in the dark they're keeping us wth?!
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/58173/radioactive-rain-the-reality-of-japans-...
full throttle
Apr 30, 2012 at 12:10am
You can't do anything about the mishap in Japan but you can do something to stop more nuke plants - join the Green Party.
Pat Crowe
Apr 30, 2012 at 8:09am
All fishing derbies seem to be being cancelled.
Get it, people?!
Curiuos
Apr 30, 2012 at 2:56pm
Why doesn't someone cast a net and scoop up that island of floating shit, instead of just waiting for it to hit the west coast?
Aki
Apr 30, 2012 at 3:34pm
If worried, don't eat salmon. Me, I eat salmon because not worried. Very low odds of radioactive fish.