Safe food is getting scarcer in Japan, even out of the no man’s land, in what I call the monitored land. Surviving in Japan supposes boycotting any food from areas northeastern of Nagoya included and of course any sea product from the North Pacific Ocean. This strict rule makes shopping complicated but nowhere as eating out. The end of the year brings a new threat in traditional food gifts that Japanese offer, i.e. “oseibo” (in Japanese 「お歳暮」. It is hard to be always on one’s guard and make rational choices as to what to eat and it is socially a burden when one constantly has to ask for the source of ingredients of any food in shops and restaurants. Furthermore, when the temptation is from one’s relatives and friends, it is almost impossible for anyone to resist and discard the gift, like Snow White could not decline the shiny red apple for the gentle old, poor woman who actually was intent on killing her.
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Safe Food Scarcity
Posted: December 20, 2011 in Citizen Awareness, Corporate Manipulation of Information, Dangerous Japanese Goods, Dangerous Japanese Policy, Food, State and Industry Controlled Media, Support Tohoku Kills Japan, Unreliable Japanese Official InformationTags: 311, Aomori, cesium positive urine test, danger, environment policy, exit strategy, fall-out, food, Fukushima, Hokkaido, Kansai, manufactured goods, march eleven, meiji, monitored land, Nagano, Nagoya, natural goods, Niigata, no-man's land, Noda, Osaka, radiation, radioactivity in bananas, restaurants, Saitama, Sayama, seafood, Snow Brand, spread, tempura, tendon, threat, Tokyo, unadon
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