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Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web

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Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web

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Post by tcfhgj »

fullspectrumdev wrote: post #12
tcfhgj wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so instead of eating them we pump it into the atmosphere? :(

I mean, do you want to eat radioactive meat? It’s been a while since I spoke with people who hunt in Germany, but there’s a whole fucking system in place for this. After you shoot them, you have to take them in to be tested. Most people do. If the meats safe you can keep it, etc, but a lot of the time in certain regions the meats contaminated (too much radiation) so it’s destroyed.

no, I don't want to eat it. But I don't want to inhale it either.

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

tcfhgj wrote: post #21
fullspectrumdev wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, do you want to eat radioactive meat? It’s been a while since I spoke with people who hunt in Germany, but there’s a whole fucking system in place for this. After you shoot them, you have to take them in to be tested. Most people do. If the meats safe you can keep it, etc, but a lot of the time in certain regions the meats contaminated (too much radiation) so it’s destroyed.

no, I don't want to eat it. But I don't want to inhale it either.

Agreed. But it did start in the air; presumably it will return to the ground soon.

Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web

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Post by fullspectrumdev »

tcfhgj wrote: post #21
fullspectrumdev wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, do you want to eat radioactive meat? It’s been a while since I spoke with people who hunt in Germany, but there’s a whole fucking system in place for this. After you shoot them, you have to take them in to be tested. Most people do. If the meats safe you can keep it, etc, but a lot of the time in certain regions the meats contaminated (too much radiation) so it’s destroyed.

no, I don't want to eat it. But I don't want to inhale it either.

Incinerators for waste have much stronger emission controls/scrubbers than power plants (eg the coal burning shit the Germans love) for… some reason I don’t actually understand.

Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web

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Post by progrus »

Anyone who eats pork anyway should have no problem with this meat either.

This sounds like grasping at straws, a last-ditch effort to scare the not-so-easily-persuadable-anymore into opposing modern power development with nuclear fission.

And here is your yearly reminder that Friends of the Earth was founded with a donation from Robert Orville Anderson, an oil baron: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Earth_(US)

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Post by derfuchs »

ngcc_hk wrote: post #23

Don’t know some German wild boar is so dangerous to eat. Is there other area and other animal like that.

As the linked german article states: “Wildschweine sind deshalb von Strahlung stärker betroffen als andere Waldtiere, da sie sich von Pilzen ernähren, die Cäsium besonders anreichern, das 1986 nach der Katastrophe von Tschernobyl vor allem über Bayern niederging.”

Deepl: “ …Wild boars are therefore more affected by radiation than other forest animals because they feed on fungi that accumulate cesium in particular, which fell mainly over Bavaria in 1986 after the Chernobyl disaster.”

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Post by akolbe »

Symmetry wrote: post #25

It would be helpful to get some numbers as to how radioactive this boar meat is. Bacon is a known minor carcinogen, would bacon made from these boars be 100 times as carcinogenic as normal bacon? 1% more?

The abstract of the underlying study[1] says:

Here, we target radiocesium contamination in wild boars from Bavaria. Our samples (2019–2021) range from 370 to 15,000 Bq·kg–1 137Cs, thus exceeding the regulatory limits (600 Bq·kg–1) by a factor of up to 25.

They don't quantify the cancer risk that would result from eating wild boar meat in Germany. I imagine it would be quite difficult to do so, given that the degree of contamination varies so much.

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.3c03565

Re: Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web

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progrus wrote: post #27

Anyone who eats pork anyway should have no problem with this meat either. This sounds like grasping at straws, a last-ditch effort to scare the not-so-easily-persuadable-anymore into opposing modern power development with nuclear fission. And here is your yearly reminder that Friends of the Earth was founded with a donation from Robert Orville Anderson, an oil baron: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Ear…

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