Well, may I try something? ~: 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. ?* 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. ~: 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. 24 It is a different thing. There are