The Querulous Squirrel: Surreal Fukushima and Its Suffering Animals

When the people of Fukushima abandoned their homes, they had to leave their pets behind, to be irradiated, to starve, and now with a harsh winter coming, to freeze to death. Starving animals cannot withstand cold. Animals activists have been desperately trying to save some of the animals, but the government has set limits on their time there. Hundreds of animals are starving. The rescuers want to be able to re-enter the exclusion zone to at least leave food for the animals left behind but the government is reluctant. There are agonizing videos of the suffering pets, horses, cattle, and animal rescuers crying. This is one of the least disturbing of the videos.?The question remains: why weren't the animals evacuated with the people?

To further demonstrate its complete disrespect of life, the government is allowing Japanese scientists to use the population of wild monkeys in a nearby forest to measure radiation levels in the plants by putting sensors in collars. ?The monkeys will be exposed to high levels of radiation for several months and then be returned to the wild. Why couldn't they use robots? This is so cruel it makes me crazy. Meanwhile half of the children from Fukushima have suffered from thyroid exposure to radiation putting them at risk for cancer.

I hate the Japanese government. They are an Evil Empire. And I hate Obama for not taking a stand against nuclear power, completely ignoring the ongoing disaster. (But I hate Mitt Romney who considers poor people subhuman more. It's a matter of the lesser of two evils.) But Obama is leaving us vulnerable to having the same disaster here. And has ignored the hundred or so e-mails I've sent him on the matter. What do I have to do (legally) to get your attention Obama? Those monkeys would make better world leaders than any of you in the U.S. or Japan. I think I need to start a separate blog exclusively devoted to anti-nuclear letters to Obama.

Source: http://thequerulousquirrel.blogspot.com/2012/02/surreal-fukushima-and-its-suffering.html

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