Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

In Japan, Today's Food Would Have Been Yesterday's Nuclear Waste


I do not jest:  the current levels set for milk suitable for infants is the same standard previously set for Very Low Level Nuclear Waste.
According to a Twitter user who contributes to Fukushima-Diary, this is a photo of the storage of such nuclear waste:
From How they used to stock 100Bq/kg of radioactive waste, posted by Iori Mochizuki. Read more here.

A graph from "Radioactive Nuclides In Foods" from the Food Safety Commission and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan (full report here):


And, because this sort of thing pisses me off, and because I have watched too much My Damn Channel to not think image manipulation good therapy, here are a couple of expressions of my response to this information.  


First, the more straightforward, then the ...not as much:  
Japan Radioactivity Limit for Food 100 Bq/Kg Used To Be Stored As Nuclear Waste
Cheaper In Bulk
or, Now How Much Would You Pay?

A Faustian Original, 2012.
not labeled for reuse but you may post it all over the place -- just give me credit please.
No Negative Impact
or, Some People's Children

A Faustian Original, 2012.
not labeled for reuse but you may post it all over the place -- just give me credit please.


Here's hoping the monkeys make it.  By which I mean Us.  (By which I mean, somehow, not to exclude Them unless they insist.). 


The monkeys scheduled to work at Fukushima?


They are the subject of another post.


Be seeing you.

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