Fukushima Farmers to Consumers: “Please Buy Our Products!”
Farmers from Fukushima brought their products down to Tokyo over the weekend and held a market in Yurakucho. They were making a public appeal about the safety of their agricultural products and calling on consumers to support the economic recovery of the region:
“It is not justifiable that products from Fukushima, which haven’t been banned from the market, are being affected” by the crisis, said JA Touzai Shirakawa’s Masaichi Mimura, executive director of the agricultural cooperative in southern Fukushima.
In an attempt to prove the safety of their products, Mimura used a Geiger counter in front of the crowd and tested the buckets of rice, strawberries, cucumbers and tomatoes that were being sold.
“See? The counter shows no irregularities. Everything is safe,” Mimura said.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan on March 21 placed an indefinite ban on sales of spinach and “kakina” from Fukushima and neighboring prefectures after samples were found to be abnormally radioactive. Milk produced in the region is also prohibited from being sold for human consumption.
Judging from the video, it looks like a lot of people tried the samples and bought some of the products.
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