Michael Cash and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:

>On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 04:38:50 GMT, "Marc" <box526TR@spamtrap.net>
>belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
>>
>>"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
>>news:3FABB4B5.84FE81D4@yahoo.co.jp...
>>> And again, the Japanese problem is blamed on a foreign
>>> source. A virus which never existed in Japan, says the
>>> news, as people are looking into how it came into
>>> Japan. As a matter of fact, it had never been seen
>>> ANYWHERE in the world until recent years, so who is to
>>> say where it actually existed first, where it came
>>> from, or whose or which country's "fault" it is for
>>> being in Japan? Same for BSE.
>>>
>>
>>I keep remembering the stories about how foreign rice and other foods should
>>be kept out of Japan because they have "high residues of pesticides". Then I
>>read a report in the Economist that noted that Japan uses among the highest
>>amounts of pesticides per m2 of farmland of any country in the world.
>
>Yeah, but Japanese farmers use real safe pesticides. I know this must
>be true because very often I see them out applying a fog of chemicals
>to their crops and almost never do I see any of them using any sort of
>safety equipment.

I'm just about to quit eating rice and going back to Hungry-Man microwave
breakfasts. Ever since I went to a local 防災訓練 2 months ago and witnessed
city firefighters testing fire extinguishers right next to rice fields (and
painting several hectares of rice Halon pink) on flaming trays of kerosene which
they disposed of in the irrigation ditch afterwards, I have been seriously
considering ingesting nothing but filtered rainwater and dry salt crackers.


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