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Are they taking the piss?
It was revealed last year that samples were taken in the 1980s from the bodies of Sellafield workers [past and present] who had died, to ascertain the levels of plutonium in various organs and to compare the findings with those of urine samples taken routinely from all workers in the UK. Local people were also sampled to check if they too had similar levels. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/6565409.stm You'd think this would be a routine safety check and part of an ongoing monitoring of nuclear safety. I would have expected it to be continuing to this day, a necessary watch on a very dangerous industry. But the revelation elicited a totally different response from the media, which went off on one of its frequent tizzes, asking anyone they could find if relatives were informed at the time and whether they gave their consent. This smacks of ancestor worship in a backward New Guinea tribe, [http://www.heretical.com/cannibal/nguinea1.html] rather than a developed, scientific nation, and very soon I expect calls for the samples to be returned to relatives to be buried with their 'loved ones' with due religious ceremony. Perhaps they'll want the urine returned as well. I find it extraordinary that a nation which slaughters tens of thousands of animals daily, makes all kinds of foodstuffs from every available animal body part, and cares little for their physical and mental welfare during their lives prior to slaughter, can care so much about the organs or even small tissue samples of dead humans. I know all religions preach that homo sapiens is, amongst the millions of species which have crawled, swum and flown on this planet, somehow special, but isn't this ludicrous obsession with bits a trifle more deranged than the norm for even religious beliefs? When you're dead, and it happens to all of us, you're dead. You are an ex inhabitant of planet Earth and must return to the stuff from whence you are made. So much meat, why should anyone give a toss what happens to it? Incineration seems to be the preferred option these days, yet it's wasteful of fossil fuel [285kwh of gas for an average body] and polluting. A much better option would be burning in power stations, or recycling. With recycling we would get to feed those animals which could stomach us, and the whole process would be natural and wholesome; wildlife parks and zoos would seem to be the obvious to benefit from a free supply of protein for their carnivores. I've often thought the Tibetan Buddhist practice, of suspending the body in a tree for the vultures to feast on, a much better alternative to the expensive polished wood coffins routinely buried to slowly rot, although wicker ones are becoming increasingly popular with the growing awareness of the need for a smaller carbon footprint. I can see that with so many of us hominids, bodies hanging in trees half eaten might be an unpleasant sight on the way to the office, so I would settle for burial in a wood, to nourish the trees, and the bluebells, wood anemones, hyacynths, wild garlic, columbine, orchids, figwort, honeysuckle, wood avens, and the unforgetable forget-me-nots, and other plants too numerous to recall. Scientists are welcome to my bits for their research I guess, especially if it means some animals are spared. The woodland burial is the preferred option on several grounds; normal burial is six foot deep, too deep for oxygen to assist aerobic composting, and anaerobic composting produces methane, the worst greenhouse gas. Trees have deep roots, so would benefit from the nutrients we all contain which would wash down to them, and their leaves would help distribute the nutrients to all the surface plants and thence into the web of life. This bit worship could be part of the trend towards a dumbing of society, the media being prime movers, staffed as they are with the largest collection of self-obsessed, simplistic lame brained posers to be found anywhere on the planet. It's an odd 'Flowers for Algernon' trend in homo sapiens, and probably part of our long demise as dominant species; gradually and eventually becoming so stupid as a species that it doesn't understand what's happening and is, as a result, blissfully unaware of the fate that awaits it. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/6565409.stm
| http://www.heretical.com/cannibal/nguinea1.html
| http://www.upc-online.org/slaughter/2000slaughter_stats.html
| http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1999/7/14_1.html
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6405105.stm
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