Japan Earthquake

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@bo LOL.Yes. Good dreams. :-)
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:13:54 PM

This just in: little kids guide to nuclear power
by bo 6/17/2011 2:14:17 PM

What is that?
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:15:49 PM

Exactly what I said, a guide to nuclear power for children, who may have questions about why they had to flee their home forever.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:16:38 PM

@bo Oh that is incredibly sad. I thought it was a food package and thought someone had adopted some truth in advertising.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:18:18 PM

@lilly ha! That much truth in advertising is a long way away!
by bo 6/17/2011 2:19:22 PM

I am surprised some of the larger food product companies have not started their own testing to gain confidence in their products?
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:20:43 PM

I think that they are not yet prepared for the new public mood. They are used to obedient customers. It will be interesting, as someone living in Japan, to see how, and how quickly, companies (govts., newspapers) adjust to an angrier, skeptical public.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:21:54 PM

@bo I think people are starting to find their voice. Should be an interesting summer.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:25:31 PM

News Herlald Sun: Japan to start cleaning radioactive water www.heraldsun.com.au
by Mid Valley 6/17/2011 2:25:53 PM

I see some of that obedient customer mentality here too. Companies expect people to stop asking questions and buy the product no matter the concerns or complaints.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:26:24 PM

@lilly agreed. I can feel it here. It is tangible. The mood is turning. And as we know, the news will only get worse, and people can only wake up more.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:26:48 PM

I have seen some in store marketing to urge people to buy Japanese products here in the US and the store would give a percentage of profits to Japanese charities. I don't see it going over that well at least with food products.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:28:24 PM

Wow. Fascinating. There is an article about how Japanese fish exports are down 50%. I can't imagine people buying Japanese food. There are easier ways to donate to relief funds.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:29:55 PM

@bo After they started finding contamination in the south regions and Tokyo I can't bring myself to buy packaged products. I have other options and the kid has a voracious appetite for Japanese junk food. So that is off the shopping list for now until some reliable testing is in place.
I quit buying seafood, it is just too big of a pain to try to find something with known location and I still have reservations on Gulf seafood. Testing and region specific documentation would help. IE: Is seafood from the sea of Japan safe where pacific is questionable. The lack of information could be making things worse that the reality.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:34:08 PM

@bo I read recently that Japan fish exports are only 2 to 3% of there total exports so I don't think that will have a major impact. The car exports will be the main cause of concern. Toyota is going down, dramatically.
by Pedro Jesus 6/17/2011 2:35:14 PM

@lillymunster Japanese junk food? First time I ever read that expression... what is Japanese junk food?
by Pedro Jesus 6/17/2011 2:36:34 PM

@Pedro Jesus Pocky, jelly candy, wasabi peas, flavored rice crackers, ramune soda. That kind of thing.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:37:35 PM

@lillymunster Oh, we don't get that stuff here in Portugal... only the good Japanese stuff. I wonder what will happen to sushi and sashimi now. I absolutely love Japanese food.
by Pedro Jesus 6/17/2011 2:40:57 PM

@Pedro Jesus the seafood drop is domestic as well. I've heard that many wholesalers at Tsukiji market have lost half, or even most of their business. Japan supplies 10% of the world fish market, mostly in Asia. I'm sure Toyota is suffering, because of the supply chain, and also electricity cutbacks. @lilly I agree about food. I've stopped eating the seafood, I think I will eat some of the local Seto Sea fish, which are very small and do not range wide. But I think in the end the packaged food is where the bad food will be dumped.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:41:57 PM

@Pedro Jesus encourage your local Japanese restaurant to use fish from Portugal, or from Galicia.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:42:39 PM

@bo I wondered with so much of the pacific fishing fleets destroyed in the tsunami if Japan would cut their seafood exports to assure there is enough domestically?
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:43:44 PM

@bo They usually do, but what about the rest of the ingredients that don't grow here? Fish won't be a problem because we have very good tuna and salmon in Europe.
by Pedro Jesus 6/17/2011 2:44:55 PM

TEPCO is also considering adoption of a full face mask covering the corresponding glasses. Food restriction, and also to check the mounting depth of education and the need for protection. (Eisuke Sasaki)
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by elainekirk 6/17/2011 2:47:28 PM

@lilly those fleets are owned and operated by sharks. They don't care about anything but $$$$$$$$$$
by bo 6/17/2011 2:47:33 PM

@Pedro Jesus the big problem will be rice. Any sushi chef will tell you that the key to sushi is rice. Tohoku is a major rice growing area, and as someone pointed out yesterday, rice grows in paddies, full of water. This is going to be a major problem in the next few years. Japanese people choose restaurants by the quality of the rice. Ugh. And for you all in Europe or the US, getting good quality Japanese rice will be very expensive.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:49:12 PM

In terms of domestic fish, I read that Tsukiji market (the largest fish market in the world) traditionally gets 40% of its supplies from Tohoku.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:50:25 PM

@bo Absolutely. I know a couple of sushi chefs around here, one of which is a friend, and that's what worries them as well.
by Pedro Jesus 6/17/2011 2:50:41 PM

@Pedro Jesus well the rice in the stores now is fine, so I am stocking up!
by bo 6/17/2011 2:51:14 PM

@bo There is a small amount of rice grown in CA but not sure what varieties. Plus CA got their share of contamination so might not be considerably better. I don't know if I have ever seen sushi rice with a US grower.
We had sky high rice in the US a few years ago when there were shortage concerns.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:51:30 PM

@lilly Lundberg in Cali grows sushi rice.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:53:01 PM

@bo May have to stop by the coop and stock up, they carry Lundburg.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:53:47 PM

On the plus side, it is so hard to get Thai or basmati rice here because of tariffs. That may have to change.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:54:15 PM

@bo Should I start shipping 20# bags of Basmati, they have them at the warehouse store here. :-)
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:55:39 PM

@lilly Lundburg is the darling of all the coops, but the brothers themselves are very right-wing. Ooh, bring on the basmati! Actually, I finally found a source here in Hiroshima. Thank god!
by bo 6/17/2011 2:56:27 PM

@bo Basmati is quite easy to find here, but a bit expensive.
by Pedro Jesus 6/17/2011 2:57:09 PM

@bo I find that quite often where natural food companies that supply the coops have very right wing leaning ownership.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:57:35 PM

@lilly as in Tom's of Maine. And Whole Foods.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:57:56 PM

@bo yes, and Udi's foods.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:58:16 PM

@lilly I worked in the natural food world for years.
by bo 6/17/2011 2:58:41 PM

@Pedro Jesus I noticed that when visiting my son in Barcelona. But at least you all can get good donner!
by bo 6/17/2011 2:59:52 PM

Here is a good site to show who owns the natural food industry:http: //www.cornucopia.org/who-owns-organic/ Many graphs
by Mid Valley 6/17/2011 3:02:20 PM

www.cornucopia.org
by Mid Valley 6/17/2011 3:02:43 PM

@Mid Valley excellent resource. Thanks a lot. We used to call Hain-Celestial "the Heinous Corporation."
by bo 6/17/2011 3:04:09 PM

@Mid Valley I knew a few of those. Lots more I didn't. We try to buy local as much as we can. We live in a heavily agriculture area but ironically have challenges finding local food. Our coop has started trying to by more from local farms.
by lillymunster 6/17/2011 3:05:17 PM