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As Brattleboro celebrates the Strolling of the Heifers, farmers in Fukushima, who might like to participate in such a lighthearted affair, face terrible choices. While Japan's nuclear catastrophe unfolds, farmers are forced to choose between abandoning their farms and animals or risking their own health and safety.
Some return to care for their starving animals. They milk their cows knowing that no one will ever drink the milk, because the thought of abandoning their animals is unconscionable.
This once-rich farmland will be uninhabitable for decades. Farms will remain abandoned and a way of life destroyed.
After the Chernobyl accident, many peasants returned to their homes, because leaving the land their ancestors inhabited was worse than living with the constant fear of radiation.
Given the overwhelming vote by the Vermont Senate to reject Vermont Yankee's continued operation after its license expires in 2012, it's confounding that you, Chairman, chose this moment to visit VY and offer this meeting. Why not last January when the ongoing leaks as well as Entergy's misrepresentations became...
