by Lynne Hayes. Original article in: Growing America. Friday
April 8th, 2016
Lynne Hayes’
article highlights a major invasive species problem being manifested in the
Fukushima region of Japan, an area in Japan that includes the 12 mile radius of
the “exclusion zone” that experienced the nuclear disaster resulting from the Fukushima
Hamadōri earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 March 2011.
As if a nuclear disaster wasn't overwhelming enough in the
Fukushima region of Japan, now the farmers who live in the area are being
overrun by wild boars—thousands of them—with razor sharp tusks. And to top it
off, they’re radioactive.
They’re full of radiation, so not only can’t they be eaten,
they must be buried in concrete pits much like any disposed of radioactive
material. That has created an even
bigger problem in Japan—mass graves that were built to hold 600 boars each are
already full and there is a shortage of people qualified to cremate them.
Their problem???? Not
so fast: see the section: Pigging Out In America … feral hogs are OUR
problem as well. Though not
radioactive, according to the USDA, the
United States is home to more than 5 million feral hogs. These ‘cousins” of
the wild boar are capable of devastating damage to crops and can seriously
upset the balance of our ecosystem.
See the entire article at: http://growinggeorgia.com/features/2016/04/rampaging-radioactive-wild-boars-causing-havoc/
