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Those turkeys: governments continue to disappoint
By dwray in The nature of things
August 10, 2011

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Yesterday, it all came out that the Japanese Government knew the Fukushima evacuees were sitting downwind of radioactive emissions. Children played outside, people used contaminated water to cook with and it is only just now coming to light that government officials knew these people were sitting in the midst of the radioactive mess made by the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and allowed it to happen.

Now, it turns out federal officials knew the turkey, which is currently being recalled across the United States, was contaminated, but didn't move to recall the product until 77 people took sick and one person died, the Wall Street Journal reported today.

Entities like governments and corporations are not moral creatures - they do what the people driving them want, for their purposes, and, unless it impacts the profit lines or an election, it often seems like right and wrong don't much enter into the decision-making process.

That's all fine and good until you find yourself sick from a contaminated turkey burger. It's no big deal until you're sitting in a doctor's office wondering if the test results will be bad, if those days you spent, unknowing, directly in the path of the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown will cost you more than you ever thought possible.