In a certain area, carp herpes, a disease blamed on
foreign sources despite there not being any import of
carp, 85% of the farmed stock have been lost to the
disease. Transfer, and thus sale, of carp has been
banned for a month in Ibaraki. This is being asked to
die, says a fisherman. Reporters are sympathetic.
Restaurants which serve carp put up signs proclaiming
eating even diseased fish to have absolutely no effect
on humans. The fish in the area are not ordered
destroyed for study or safety. The stocks nationwide
are not culled. As a matter of fact, the dead fish are
left to rot by the thousands, apparently without
concern that they are contaminating that water and
everything else sharing that body of water, with virus
or through putrefaction.

How different it is when some imported food is
discovered to have some problem no matter how slight,
and Japan slaps on a complete ban, as with British
beef, and people like myself donating blood are asked
if they have simply been to Europe (actually, ANYWHERE
abroad, ever), or Subway Sandwich cannot serve
sandwiches, lest the Japanese be contaminated. What the
effect on Japan and Japanese would be is not explained.
It is enough to publicize something was not right with
the foreign food, and the people will react.

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.