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Old 03-14-2011, 03:39 PM  
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It's not about people getting sick and such.... it's about our food supply and parts of our water supplies not being usable until cycled out and then being able to get people food who need it but can't get it, because we're out of it, then replacing it too...

Food and water contamination does happen and it has happened in the past.
who do you mean by "our"? Agriculture only accounts for a fraction of Japanese GDP, and I don't think they export much foodstuffs at all. From what I understand, it very unrealsitic to expect a chernobyl-style gas cloud wafting over to the US, so your fodd supply won't be in any danger. If anything, local land around the site may get contaminated, but that's about it, right?

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"they" probably already contaminate "your" food supply with the amount of heavy metals in their electronics you buy and discard ;)
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