Wild boar in Eastern and Central Europe have remained highly radioactive since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Scientists have determined the ongoing high levels of radiation relate to the boar's preference for deer truffles. This article details how the dynamics of deer truffles and the #ecosystem they are in enhances the contamination of the #truffles, and their ongoing threat to health.
So these truffles are not just increasingly absorbing #Chernobyl#radiation, but also fallout that spread globally from nuclear weapon testing.
As the old saying goes, we know when #nuclear disasters start, but not when they end, because they don't end.
@bojacobs@sts now just wait up a moment here. You're saying that there are already natural processes that suck up radioactive contamination from the ground and concentrate it in a foodstuff that only the very rich can afford to eat?
Clearly the boars are innocent victims in all this, but surely there's a surely lining here
