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Really, really awful report on farm animals dying from hunger & thirst in the evacuation zone around Fukushima.

From the Japan Times:

By ROB GILHOOLY

MINAMISOMA, Fukushima Prefecture — There’s a repellent stench coming from the cowshed. It’s a mixture of manure, hay and something more difficult to pinpoint — something dank, musty, unworldly.

At the back, penned behind large wooden troughs, two cows stumble back and forth, searching for food and water. Two others are lying on their sides, eyes vacant, their bodies bloated. They, too, had waited to be fed, but in vain.

There is no water — the taps are dry — and there’s nothing to feed them with, though even if there was, there’s no one to put it out for them.  . .  (more)

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There still is no cooling going on effectively at the TOPEC meltdown site is Fukushima. They have more aftershocks to blame it on. They have spewed radioactive poison worldwide and cannot say when they will stop doing it.

And this morning Google thinks 32,792 news stories on Fukushima need to be excluded from ‘Top Stories’.

UPDATE

New evacuation order may force Fukushima farmer to abandon beloved cows

April 14,   Finally! –

Dog-lovers brave Fukushima nuclear danger zone to save abandoned pets