Mothra is real - Photo of the Fukushima radiation mutation.
Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear plant has caused mutations in some butterflies and damaged the local environment, though humans seem relatively unaffected, researchers say.
The mutations - including dented eyes and stunted wings - are the first evidence the radiation following last year's tsunami has caused genetic changes in living organisms.
The catastrophic meltdowns in three reactors of Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant after it was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 prompted a public backlash against nuclear power, and forced the government to reassess resource-scarce Japan's entire energy strategy.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/fukushima-radiation-causes-insect-mutations-researchers-20120817-24cy2.html#ixzz23nqzTQGY
I'm sure humans will not be affected.... cough, cough, wink, wink.
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New Orleans, LA - "The fishermen have never seen anything like this," Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. "And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I've never seen anything like this either."
Dr Cowan, with Louisiana State University's Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences started hearing about fish with sores and lesions from fishermen in November 2010.
Cowan's findings replicate those of others living along vast areas of the Gulf Coast that have been impacted by BP's oil and dispersants.
Gulf of Mexico fishermen, scientists and seafood processors have told Al Jazeera they are finding disturbing numbers of mutated shrimp, crab and fish that they believe are deformed by chemicals released during BP's 2010 oil disaster.
Along with collapsing fisheries, signs of malignant impact on the regional ecosystem are ominous: horribly mutated shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crabs and shrimp - and interviewees' fingers point towards BP's oil pollution disaster as being the cause.
not 1, that I can recall.
In fact BP has commercials now including La., Florida's west coast, Miss. with pictures of shiny, happy people, dancing, swimming, fishing and eating "the seafood is delicious!!!!".
Disturbing.
I also wonder how many reports and photos of deformation Japanese people have been made aware of?
I can't read Japanese.
How about on tv? I realize many, many people are online but tv still reaches a maximum audience.
You probably already know that there is a huge propaganda effort to squash negative GOM stories here; we're more likely to hear about great white sharks in Mass. than about mutated seafood. Pisses me off that people are unaware of the health problems related to the oil spill are still effecting people and marine life, business is not as usual.
Sometimes governments everywhere behave like government everywhere, usually not in their citizens' best interest.
Shrimp on the barbie, great beaches and the best years ever to go deep sea fishing!
