{"id":10637,"date":"2013-12-16T03:27:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T11:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=10637"},"modified":"2013-12-16T03:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T11:27:16","slug":"china-bans-import-shellfish-nw-us-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=10637","title":{"rendered":"China Bans Import of Shellfish from NW US – But Is There More to the Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tepco\"<\/a>There was a story over the weekend, widely covered, but not, about how China has banned the import of shellfish<\/a> from the Pacific Northwest of the US. \u00a0First time it has happened. Chinese say it is because they found traces of a ‘toxin’ in recent shipments. \u00a0But is that it really?<\/p>\n

Some other news stories over the weekend that didn’t get as wide as coverage were regarding the continuing dumping of radioactive water from the Japanese reactor melt-down, into the Pacific. \u00a0Another one about how sailors on a USN ship that was helping at the scene of the disaster a few years ago – has a crew coming down with all manner of weird cancers.<\/p>\n

I was living in Oregon when the first solid debris from the Japanese nuke disaster starting floating up on the coast. Of course, there’s no way to stop radioactive ocean water from making its way to the US.<\/p>\n

Panic stories have suggested the entire west coast of the US and Hawaii will be uninhabitable<\/a> within a couple years. \u00a0In addition to the fact that Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho would become very crowded, California, Oregon, and Washington supply an ungodly high percentage of produce in the US (and grape wines, of course), and this would result in further problems.<\/p>\n

What if Godzilla returns?<\/p>\n

Should we be concerned? \u00a0Are we? Is this a real crisis? \u00a0Time will tell.<\/p>\n

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There was a story over the weekend, widely covered, but not, about how China has banned the import of shellfish from the Pacific Northwest of the US. \u00a0First time it has happened. Chinese say it is because they found traces of a ‘toxin’ in recent shipments. \u00a0But is that it really? Some other news stories… Continue reading China Bans Import of Shellfish from NW US – But Is There More to the Story?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}