FAQs

①cows were to be killed as cattle in the end even if it had not been for the accident. so, why do you save cows?

Japanese farmers take very good care of their cows until the cows go to slaughter house.

Farmers don't agree to kill their cows for no reason; They can agree to kill their cow only when there is a crucial reason that their cow can give their life as a food for human and let the farmers survive. Without the reason, farmers and also other people don't want to kill or suffer innocent animals who feel pains.

This is the international standard of Animal Welfare.

②Isn't your feeding rediation contaminated grass to cows abuse?

Actually, it might be the best to be able to give perfectly uncontaminated grass to livestock cattle.

However, in reality, there are only two choices permitted in the zone; death or life within the exclusion zone.

the government prohibited livestock from moving beyond the exclusion zone, and there is only a way to make the best use to eat grass that grows locally for cows without a huge amont of food support everyday.

- Because they eat a lot, grass of trucks a day, it will be a surprising amount.

permitted trucks, permitted drivers and feeding staffs and fuel are also neccesery.

No body in Japan and the world could have supplied this so far.

And if we could have such support, we would want to save the other farmers' cows who have been dying by hunger starvation even now in this area.

This is because the radiation concentration level of local green grass in the exclusion zone has now dropped to almost around 10-20 Bq/kg. This level is much lower than Japanese human food standard and as same as international human food standard calculated by IAEA.

this level is said to be 'no influence to be cancer if his taking this food for his whole life'. cf. human food standard in US is 1200 and EU is 1250 Bq/kg.

the zone of Moo Mow Garden is between two zones where people can return from this year. radiation level is said to be miraculously low for Difficult-to-return-zone.

we don't think that our feeding the the local grass to the cows is abuse.

since our cows are in stress-free environment and in good health condition, i want them to get a new record of Guiness; to live beyond 49 years old.

③who manages the gerden and where donation goes?

Moo Mow Garden is managed by Friends Humane Society of unpaid volunteers including me and land owners.

i have worked at a private school for myself and for cows.

donation goes to food during winter and fence we have always expanded for cows.

④Can we visit Moo Mow Garden?

Yes, you can.

All you have to do is just to send friends.humane@gmail.com your name on identification card and your mobile phone number.

The information you send is used only to apply for official permission to enter Moo Mow Garden in Difficult-to-return-zone.

⑤Do we need to wear Tybec clothing?

The town office requires wearing cloths with long sleeves, long pants, and a hat or cap.

But if you want to wear Tybec clothing, that's also fine.

⑥How much degree radiation level is here ?

Here is 0.5 micro sievert, average. (0.2-0.7 μSv/hour)

cf.

2.4 miri sievert, natural exposure of a person in the world average, Annual

2.1 miri sievert, natural exposure of a person in Japan average, Annual

0.19 miri sievert, a flight from Tokyo to NY

2.2-12.9 miri sievert medical exposure by CT scan

(by UNSCEAR 2008 report)

conversion: 1000 micro sievert = 1 miri sievert

It is said that the wind from the river might have prevented this place from receiving the radioactive smog.

The level in Moo Mow Garden is miraculously low, compared with other places in the same Difficult-to-Return zone.