Could Japan’s Fukushima Radiation be Mutating Vegetables?

by Christina Sarich
Natural Society
Aug 23, 2014

An artist that lives in the northern portion of the Mie Prefecture, in Western Japan (but still within Fukushima’s radiation-circle) has posted pictures on Pinterest of some very outlandish looking carrots that he dug up from his own garden.

The poster simply comments, “The carrots that grew in my garden look too abnormal this year . . .”

Some refute the ‘mutant fruits and vegetable’ pictures popping up on different Internet sites, stating that they are a hoax, and others are insistent that the pictures they are posting are real. There have been mutant cabbages, 4 times the normal size, and tomatoes that seem to have exploded, but is this all sensationalized news, or something we should really be concerned about?

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[related: Reports of Genetic Abnormalities in Birds, Insects, Plants Near Fukushima]