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U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage (fortune.com)

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Ambassador: Joke's on them, I'm already dead on the inside.

[-] aufheben@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Straight out of the Obama playbook

[-] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"This fish I'm about to eat is totally from the area where the radioactive water was dumped and not something we imported from a clean environment."

[-] qbus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Good. We're going to feed him a bunch of Plymouth oysters if they ever dump the nuclear water from the pilgrim power plant in Cape cod Bay too.

[-] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 0 points 1 year ago

This man will probably end up like Bhagwant Mann

[-] theinspectorst@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In 1990, as the BSE ('mad cow disease') crisis in the UK was unfolding and shortly after scientists had found proof that the disease could indeed cross species, the Agriculture Secretary John Gummer went on national TV to try to force his four-year-old daughter to eat a beef burger for the cameras, to convince the public to keep eating British beef.

Several hundred people ended up dying from CJD (the human variant caused by eating infected beef). It remains one of the most widely derided photo ops in British political history.

[-] PenguinJuice@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Yikes that is pretty diabolical. Using children to prove a point is horrible.

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