震災後再び拡大の兆しのあるもう一つの大規模汚染。初めて購入した、「シルク野菜」との銘を打つ白茄子も疑わしい。

‘Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home -- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.’
Eleanor Roosevelt at the presentation of "IN YOUR HANDS: A Guide for Community Action for the Tenth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

農作物の商品としては見たところ申し分のない出来映えのおいしそうな東北産のメロン。代金を余分に支払わされているが、それよりも検査、ただし放射性物質ではなく、それ以外の汚染の検査をしてほしい。

自転車で片道１時間半かけて通っている歯科医院の近くの公園