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buglebum on 18 March 2011
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The Fury said:
MrT-Tar said:
The Fury said:

Can't farm in Eastern England becuase of Chernobyl fallout? Where did you hear that? That seems a bit far fetched as well. 

I haven't heard of inability to farm, but I heard only last year of some sheep in Dorset being considered 'unfit for human consumption' due to the contamination from Chernobyl.

Bit off trail of the actual subject of the thread but I still find this and what NotStan said rather hard to believe. It sounds like excuses and fear talk in motion.

In the case of the land, must of East Anglia cannot be used due to flooding from the sea (salt water), there are also 2 nuclear power stations located in East Anglia both of which have farm land round them. Also, while fallout did reach the UK, it wasn't that much, not enough to contaminate fields (or sheep) for 20 years after.

As for the sheep, unless they came from the area of Chernobyl recently and imported, I highly doubt sheep could be contaminated by Chernobyl fallout. Sheep only live for around 12 years, how they would have been contaminated in just Dorset beyond me.

Although I'm not argueing you didn't read it. All sounds weird to me. Using a major incident to explain something else. But hey, who knows, maybe the fall out did effect the land and sheep in this way in the UK. Just as well that we continue to support and invest heavily in Ukraine's farming, where we get a lot of exports from.

I remember watching a documentry about 10-12 years ago that talked about the effect of chernobyl fallout on land and animals in east anglia. The whole documentry wasn't just about that but mostly regarding it's effects in the UK.

 

If I'm honest, I remember thinking what a load of bullshit. It used lots of emotive skewed statistics to hint that there "might" be a problem because of it etc etc etc.