Radioactive Wild Boars Run Amok in Japan

[MechAg94]

http://www.inquisitr.com/2965822/radioactive-wild-boars-run-amok-in-japan-after-fukushima-disaster-causing-over-15-million-in-damages/
    

The Daily Mail reports an unlikely problem which resulted from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Following the nuclear accident, wild boars in the nuclear exclusion zone were exposed to radiation and began reproducing at high rates as humans left the area. With no one to control the boar reproduction in the area, the boar population grew by 330 percent in the five years since the disaster.

RT notes that the boars are not only a problem for the farmland but also for children and people in the area who must protect themselves from the beasts. One woman who allegedly works in Japan near a community with a radioactive wild boar problem says that school children are being sent home with umbrellas to protect themselves from the creatures.

As for the health of the boars themselves, despite the boars’ food source being contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, they were noted in strikingly good health. While the meat is contaminated for consumption, the boars seem rather healthy according to scientists in the area. In fact, the wild boars in the exclusion zone seem to be thriving in their new radioactive environment.

This just begging for a movie.  Radioactive undead boars? 

Some of the other links I saw mentioned the severe reduction in the number of hunters in Japan and problems with people in cities/towns feeding them. 

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/06/26/wild-boars-threaten-japanese-towns/20920622/
This has some good video. 

[Perd Hapley]

Hogzira

[zahc]

Sounds like a business opportunity for expert foreign "game control specialists" to come and do what the Japanese can't do for themselves...for a price of course. What caliber for radioactive wild boar? I think a suppressed AR in 300BLK would be most effective.

[RoadKingLarry]

Glow in the dark bacon. What's not to like?

[Fly320s]

Glow in the dark bacon. What's not to like?

Or bacon that cooks itself.

[sumpnz]

I wonder if the meat is really contaminated or if that's just scare mongering.  A year or so after Fukushima there were stories of radioactive tuna off the OR and WA coasts.  IIRC they tested a bunch and found tiny trace amounts of radiation.  Like, barely enough to trip the meter and a couple orders of magnitude under anything supposedly harmful.  And, of course, there's no baseline data so they can't even say if the minute levels found were any different than what was there in the tuna before the meltdown.

[Hawkmoon]

But the nanny state has to keep us safe. How many products have you seen in the past ten years that NOBODY in their right mind would ever put in their mouth, but the package has a warning that the product "contains materials known to be carcinogenic to rats in California"? (Or something like that.)

[RoadKingLarry]

But the nanny state has to keep us safe. How many products have you seen in the past ten years that NOBODY in their right mind would ever put in their mouth, but the package has a warning that the product "contains materials known to be carcinogenic to rats in California"? (Or something like that.)

I thought all known substances except organic tofu is known to cause cancer in California

[LadySmith]

Hogzira

Want.

I thought all known substances except organic tofu is known to cause cancer in California

That's sustainable, fermented, pickled, non-GMO organic tofu from certified vegan facilities.
Don't you non-Californians know nothin'? 

[MechAg94]

The meat is already irradiated.  Does that mean it will not spoil very fast?

[wmenorr67]

I thought all known substances except organic tofu is known to cause cancer in California

Maybe it is California causing all the cancer.

[lee n. field]

Sounds like a business opportunity for expert foreign "game control specialists" to come and do what the Japanese can't do for themselves...for a price of course. What caliber for radioactive wild boar? I think a suppressed AR in 300BLK would be most effective.

Helicopter pig hunting could be big in Japan.

[MikeB]

Maybe it is California causing all the cancer.

That's what I think. Last couple times I was there it seemed every building I walked into had a cancer warning notification.

[grampster]

If the wild pigs are irradiated muchly, wouldn't they be sterile?

[Perd Hapley]

On a trip to Japan, mild-mannered college student Peter Porker was bitten by a radioactive pig...

[makattak]

On a trip to Japan, mild-mannered college student Peter Porker was bitten by a radioactive pig...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=714-Ioa4XQw&t=0m12s

As with everything, Simpsons got there first.

[HankB]

. . . school children are being sent home with umbrellas to protect themselves from the creatures.

Considering that Japan is the home of some really bad science fiction - both movies and manga - I assume this means that the Japs think the porcine mutants can morph into clouds of liquid piggy and rain on the kids?

[RoadKingLarry]

Considering that Japan is the home of some really bad science fiction - both movies and manga - I assume this means that the Japs think the porcine mutants can morph into clouds of liquid piggy and rain on the kids?

Need to ship that *expletive deleted*it to the middle east most riki-tik