Reply #25: No but I eat plant matter.

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Plant matter, having radioactive isotopes such as carbon-14.

You are more radioactive from carbon-14 alone than that milk in Spokane: It tested at 5000 times less than the level of concern of 170 Bq/kg (.034 Bq/kg), and the average adult has enough C₁₄ to emit far more then .034 Bq/kg (and C₁₄ only makes up half of the body's natural radioactivity). The "level of concern" itself is set far below the max safety level so that action can be taken before people are at risk.

Playing Chicken Little over such a benign amount of radiation only means that no one will take you seriously when the radiation gets to a concern level. Honestly, acting as though seawater around the nuclear plant in Japan being several thousand times above a safe level is just as worrisome as a milk sample being less radioactive than the average adult makes a mockery of the situation in Japan.