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Finding the flotsam: where is Japan's floating tsunami wreckage headed?

Finding the flotsam: where is Japan's floating tsunami wreckage headed? | Geographyclass | Scoop.it

Scientists model where and when the debris from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami will be.  The likelihood that the debris (not radioactive) will reach the U.S. west coast is increasingly likely.  Look at the great video attached to the article.   


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It will be very interesting to see if this floating pile of junk actually reaches the west coast of the United States.  It seems possible that it could, but some of the scientists and other experts believe that it could also break up and sink before it reaches us.  One of my questions going in was whehter or not the wreckage was radioactive?  Luckily it is not radioactive and that should not be a concern for anyone. 

Crissy Borton's curator insight, December 11, 2012 11:23 PM

Interesting to see were all the “junk” is going. I wonder how it effects the water and the ecosystem as it moves.

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"Pink Slime" - Mechanically Separated Meat

"Pink Slime" - Mechanically Separated Meat | Geographyclass | Scoop.it

I found this article to be quite disturbing mainly due to the fact that I know my government is allowing it.  Is this pink stuff even meat that I should be eating.  This is certainly not something that should be taken very lightly by anyone as this is food that undoubtedly everyone has consumed. 

 


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Crissy Borton's comment, September 30, 2012 8:35 PM
It is sad and upsetting that our government will okay this type of "meat" and other man made and GMO foods but will not allow the sale of raw milk do to safety concerns. Farmers are not longer run by famers but corporations. After seeing this news report when it originally came out I began to read the labels of everything I was buying at the store and eating and I was shocked to see how much of what I was eating was not real food. Lables that say all natural can and often do contain items we would not consider natural like GMO's. Their is no government regulation on these labels only organic ones contain no GMOs. :-(
Lauren Jacquez's curator insight, January 25, 4:21 PM

This is what yo uare getting at McDonalds HUGGERS!

 

Adrian Bahan (MNPS)'s curator insight, March 7, 8:16 PM

Oh man, I hope that's not the beginnins of my beloved Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell!!!