Well, may I try something?
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The statement here with respect to plants
says that the plant has not been injured.
plant.
The plant is still a healthy
But it has taken up these materials from the soil and incorporated
them in the edible part of the plant so that if you eat that fruit you now
take in radioactive material.
The plant still has not been harmed but it
has carried the radioactive material to you.
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This is very much similar to
When the fish is not sick, the fish is fine, the poisoned fish.
But when you eat him you become sick.
It is the same thing.
The fish is
not harmed by being the carrier of this poison.
Marshallese:
If the book is stating that there is a small amount of
radiation in the Marshalls today how can you then say that that which
enters the plant that you eat then can be a part of you?
Bair:
A very small amount of radiation is not likely to cause harm but
each amount more that you get increases the chances of getting some harm.
Buck:
Well, so then this statement should say, “Yes, this is safe but if
you keep eating and keep eating those things, then you should be concerned.
It could exceed safe limits.”
Bair:
We don’t think there is enough there to exceed. ..
use the word safe.
I don’t want to
Because it is not a very accurate word.
(To Alice:
I
don’t really know how to respond to that.)
Buck:
I was thinking though that the book has said that you don’t want to
continue eating foods that have it in it.
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I have got to try one more statement that might help.
This statement
that says the plants will only be harmed if they received an exceedingly
large amount of radiation refers to what happens to the plant itself and
the plant can receive an enormous amount of radiation and even to the point
of being destroyed but that would not signify that if you then ate that
plant you would receive the radiation.
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It is a different thing.
There are